ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

The De-Accenting and Re-Accenting of Repeated Lexical Items

Alan Cruttenden

Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

The phenomenon of the de-accenting of old or 'given' information has often been taken for granted as an intonational universal, despite hints to the contrary in the literature. An attempt is made to construct a test of such de-accenting and apply it to eight languages. It is found that de-accenting and re-accenting vary according to discourse structure and to language.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cruttenden, Alan (1993): "The de-accenting and re-accenting of repeated lexical items", In Prosody-1993, 16-19.