TY  - CONF
A1  - Stavropoulou, Pepi
T1  - On the status of contrast : evidence from the prosodic domain
N2  - Recent models of Information Structure (IS) identify a low level contrast feature that functions within the topic and focus of the utterance. This study investigates the exact nature of this feature based on empirical evidence from a controlled read speech experiment on the prosodic realization of different levels of contrast in Modern Greek. Results indicate that only correction is truly contrastive, and that it is similarly realized in both topic and focus, suggesting that contrast is an independent IS dimension. Non default focus position is further identified as a parameter that triggers a prosodically marked rendition, similar to correction.
KW  - Information Structure
KW  - Prosody
KW  - Contrast
KW  - Correction
KW  - Markedness
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6377
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66066
ER  -