TY  - CHAP
A1  - Röhr, Christine Tanja
T1  - Information status and prosody : production and perception in German0F*
N2  - In a production experiment and two follow-up perception experiments on read German we investigated the (de-)coding of discourse-new, inferentially and textually accessible and given discourse referents by prosodic means. Results reveal that a decrease in the referent’s level of givenness is reflected by an increase in its prosodic prominence (expressed by differences in the status and type of accent used) providing evidence for the relevance of different intermediate types of information status between the poles given and new. Furthermore, perception data indicate that the degree of prosodic prominence can serve as the decisive cue for decoding a referent’s level of givenness.
KW  - prosody
KW  - information status
KW  - discourse referent
KW  - degree of givenness
KW  - cognitive activation
KW  - prominence
KW  - pitch accent
KW  - perception
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66116
ER  -