TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jannedy, Stefanie
T1  - Prosodic focus in Vietnamese
N2  - This paper reports on pilot work on the expression of Information Structure in Vietnamese and argues that Focus in Vietnamese is exclusively expressed prosodically: there are no specific focus markers, and the language uses phonology to express intonational emphasis in similar ways to languages like English or German. The exploratory data indicates that (i) focus is prosodically expressed while word order remains constant, (ii) listeners show good recoverability of the intended focus structure, and (iii) that there is a trading relationship between several phonetic parameters (duration, f0, amplitude) involved to signal prosodic (acoustic) emphasis.
KW  - Information Structure
KW  - Vietnamese
KW  - Focus
KW  - Perception
KW  - (Statement-Question Matching)
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19478
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jannedy, Stefanie
A1  - Mendoza-Denton, Norma
T1  - Structuring information through gesture and intonation
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - Face-to-face communication is multimodal. In unscripted spoken discourse we can observe the interaction of several "semiotic layers", modalities of information such as syntax, discourse structure, gesture, and intonation. We explore the role of gesture and intonation in structuring and aligning information in spoken discourse through a study of the co-occurrence of pitch accents and gestural apices. Metaphorical spatialization through gesture also plays a role in conveying the contextual relationships between the speaker, the government and other external forces in a naturally-occurring political speech setting.
KW  - gesture
KW  - intonation
KW  - spoken discourse
KW  - narrative structure
KW  - political speech
KW  - affect
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8774
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 3
SP  - 199
EP  - 244
ER  -