Prosody and Iconicity
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.
Daniel Hirst
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniel Hirst plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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2013 UK declarative rises and the frequency code Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Article
One of the most often-cited generalisations about intonation is that in a majority of languages from all over the world, falling intonation is systematically associated with statements and rising intonation with questions and continuations. John Ohala’s frequency code (1983), according to which… read more