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Publication details [#6060]

Lehman, Christina. 1977. Stress and sentence position: Ways of indicating discourse prominence. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 5 : 109–121.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse focality | intention | prosody | relative clause | saliency | stress | syntax1

Annotation

On the correlation between syntactic form, prosody and communicative intent. More particularly, the relation between relative clause constructions, stress assignment, and the degree of prominence attached to specific elements is considered.