This paper strives to characterize the relation between accent placement and discourse in
terms of independent constraints operating at the interface between syntax and …

There is increasing awareness of the large degree of crosslinguistic diversity involved in the
structural realization of information packaging (or information structure). Whereas English …

A perception experiment investigated the appropriateness of a number of accent patterns in
contexts in which a referring expression can be regarded as neither completely given …

Interpreting focus Page 1 Interpreting focus BART GEURTS & ROB VAN DER SANDT Abstract
Although it is widely agreed, if often only tacitly, that there is a close connection between focus …

We present a data-to-speech system called D2S, which can be used for the creation of data-
to-speech systems in different languages and domains. The most important characteristic of …

The main objective of the paper is to show that for an adequate analysis of an item's
information status in spoken language two levels of givenness have to be investigated: a …

This paper is concerned with how focus-ground should be optimally integrated into
grammar. It proposes an analysis with the following characteristics:(1) information structure …

This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the
semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of …

The representation of phrasal stress extends the representation of word stress upwards by at
least two levels. These proposals on syntactic influences on phrasal stress are discussed …

In this article we discuss some empirical results concerning the impact of different levels of
information status (ie referents and words, respectively) on the prosodic realisation of …