Prosodic and Semantic Properties of Intonational Phrases

• Authors: Tanja Milićev , Nataša Milićević , Maja Marković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between prosodic and semantic properties of Intonational Phrases, based on the facts from Serbian. The production tests and elicited judgements show that the prosodic integration of the embedded IPs (appositives, parentheticals, and the left-peripheral adverbs) has a distinct semantic effect, or is accompanied by the narrow focus interpretation within the proposition modified.

Keywords

EN

conventional implicature; focus; intonational phrase; prosodic integration

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 70-77

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Tanja Milićev

• University of Novi Sad

author

Nataša Milićević

• University of Novi Sad

author

Maja Marković

• University of Novi Sad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0008-9