TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumann,Stefan
TI  - The Intonation of Givenness: Evidence from German 
T2  - Linguistische Arbeiten ,
SN  - 9783484305083
AV  - P222 .B38 2006eb
U1  - 197 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Tübingen : 
PB  - Max Niemeyer Verlag, 
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - German language
KW  - Intonation
KW  - Intonation (Phonetics)
KW  - Semantics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Dissertation; i-xi --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Theoretical Background --; 3 Corpus Analysis --; 4 Experiments --; 5 A Model of Intonation and Givenness --; 6 Summary and Outlook --; Bibliography --; Lebenslauf; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. It begins with an overview of the state of the art in the areas of intonation and information structure, and, since the term 'Givenness' has been used in the literature in diverging ways, provides a model of 'Givenness proper', focussing on the cognitive states of discourse referents, and how these states are expressed through the choice of words and their prosody. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It comprises the analysis of a read corpus and two perception experiments which show that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types (including deaccentuation) can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor; This book addresses students and researchers of phonetics/phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It shows that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110921205
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110921205
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110921205/original
ER  -