Information structure and intonation in Hijazi Arabic

There is irrefutable evidence that many languages use intonation to express the aspects of the information structure of an utterance. Recently evidence has emerged that languages differ in how information structure (IS) is marked intonationally. This thesis presents experimental work on the prosodic...

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Main Author: Alzaidi, Muhammad Swaileh A.
Published: University of Essex 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653066