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Publication details [#20510]

Kvavik, Karen H. 1986. Characteristics of direct and reported speech prosody: Evidence from Spanish. In Coulmas, Florian. Reported speech: Some general issues. In : 1–28. : 333–360.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation pattern | reported speech

Language as a subject

Spanish

Annotation

K. examines the claims made in the literature regarding intonation patterns in reported speech through analysis of data from Spanish, and develops a `profile' of such discourse-based intonations, i.e., acoustic and linguistic features which might contribute to perceptual differences.