Sabine Zerbian
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sabine Zerbian plays a role.
2015 Syntactic and prosodic focus marking in contact varieties of South African English English World-Wide 36:2, pp. 228–258 | Article
The article presents results of an elicited-production study investigating syntactic and prosodic consequences of language contact on two varieties of multilingual Black speakers of South African English, namely Black South African English (BlSAfE) and a newly emerging variety by Black speakers… read more
2013 Prosodic marking of narrow focus across varieties of South African English English World-Wide 34:1, pp. 26–47 | Article
This paper reports on an elicited production study which investigates prosodic marking of narrow focus in modified noun phrases in varieties of South African English. The acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration in narrow focus is presented and discussed. The results… read more
2012 Perception and interpretation of intonational prominence in varieties of South African English Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 335–348 | Article
Through its intonation an utterance conveys semantic and pragmatic meaning, as e.g. in prosodic focus marking. Languages differ in the use and realization of intonation. Many studies have investigated the production of intonation in learner and contact varieties. The study reports on three… read more
2007 Subject/object-asymmetry in Northern Sotho On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages, Schwabe, Kerstin and Susanne Winkler (eds.), pp. 323–345 | Article