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This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing the melody of their sentences. Although these factors often do not change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in recent years found tools and models to describe these more elusive aspects of linguistic ...

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Intonation and Meaning 2016, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199226276

Paperback

Intonation and Meaning 2016, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199226269

Hardcover