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Nooteboom, Sieb, Truus Kruyt and Jacques Terken. 1981. What speakers and listeners do with pitch accents: Some explorations. In Fretheim, Thorstein, ed. Nordic prosody II: Papers from a symposium. Tapir. pp. 9–32.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

The central question is: What moves speakers of Dutch to mark some words in real speech communication, and not others, with pitch accents, how do listeners profit from these accents? A number of experiments inquiring into this problem are described and discussed.