Rejecting false alternatives in Chinese and English: The interaction of prosody, clefting, and default focus position

In a discourse, a listener must keep track of information which is presupposed, or established, with the speaker, and that which is new in the common ground. Focus marking helps listeners identify the new information, and reject false alternatives to it; while presupposed information is not expected...

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Main Authors: Mengzhu Yan, Sasha Calhoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-10-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/255