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  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Karvovskaya, Lena
A1  - Kimmelman, Vadim
A1  - Röhr, Christine Tanja
A1  - Stavropoulou, Pepi
A1  - Titov, Elena
A1  - van Putten, Saskia
ED  - Balbach, Maria
ED  - Benz, Lena
ED  - Genzel, Susanne
ED  - Grubic, Mira
ED  - Renans, Agata
ED  - Schalowski, Sören
ED  - Stegenwallner, Maja
ED  - Zeldes, Amir
T1  - Information structure : empirical perspectives on theory
N2  - The papers collected in this volume were presented at a Graduate/Postgraduate Student Conference with the title Information Structure: Empirical Perspectives on Theory held on December 2 and 3, 2011 at Potsdam-Griebnitzsee. The main goal of the conference was to connect young researchers working on information structure (IS) related topics and to discuss various IS categories such as givenness, focus, topic, and contrast. The aim of the conference was to find at least partial answers to the following questions: What IS categories are necessary? Are they gradient/continuous? How can one deal with optionality or redundancy? How are IS categories encoded grammatically? How do different empirical methods contribute to distinguishing between the influence of different IS categories on language comprehension and production? To answer these questions, a range of languages (Avatime, Chinese, German, Ishkashimi, Modern Greek, Old Saxon, Russian, Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands) and a range of phenomena from phonology, semantics, and syntax were investigated. The presented theories and data were based on different kinds of linguistic evidence: syntactic and semantic fieldwork, corpus studies, and phonological experiments. The six papers presented in this volume discuss a variety of IS categories, such as emphasis and contrast (Stavropoulous, Titov), association with focus and topics (van Putten, Karvovskaya), and givenness and backgrounding (Kimmelmann, Röhr).
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 17 
KW  - Fokus
KW  - Topik
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Fokussensitivität
KW  - Givenness
KW  - Backgrounding
KW  - Focus
KW  - Topic
KW  - Information Structure
KW  - Focus-sensitivity
KW  - Givenness
KW  - Backgrounding
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64804
ER  -