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Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax
Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove
[Studies in Language Companion Series 199] 2018
► pp. 1–14

Chapter 1
Investigating information structure in lesser-known and endangered languages

An introduction

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.How can information structure be analysed based on corpora of spoken language?
  • 3.Prosodic encoding of information structure categories
  • 4.Syntactic encoding of information structure categories
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 2 August 2018
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