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Publication details [#22986]
Newman, Jean E. 1985. Processing spoken discourse: Effects of position and emphasis on judgements of textual coherence. Discourse Processes 8 (2) : 205–227. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
N. examines two devices for marking new information in spoken discourse: sentence position and intonational emphasis. It is argued that such devices serve a topic-promotion function.