Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spon- taneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boun- dary tones are enhanced to mark information struc- turing. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Com- ment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the bounda- ries between Discourse Units. The results are dis- cussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Editors | The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 |
| Publisher | University of Glasgow |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-85261-941-4, 978-0-85261-942-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Glasgow Duration: 2015 Aug 10 → 2015 Aug 14 |
Conference
| Conference | 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
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| Period | 2015/08/10 → 2015/08/14 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Languages and Literature