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Publication details [#48552]
Riesco-Bernier, Silvia and Jesús Romero-Trillo. 2008. The acoustics of ‘newness’ and its pragmatic implications in classroom discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (6) : 1103–1116. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
The findings of this study demonstrate that tonics can both convey “given” and “new” information and that both information functions can be realized without any significant acoustic variation in classroom conversation.