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Speaker:
Amalia Arvaniti (CLS, Radboud University, Netherlands)

One of the concepts that have been gaining popularity in the study of prosody is prominence. Prominence is essential in Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT), a task in which lay participants mark the words that stand out for them in utterances they hear and see written. I will present results from two RPT experiments the aim of which was to explore the extent to which prominence is associated with the (putative) H* ~ L+H* contrast in English; this contrast has been treated by some researchers as purely phonetic and by others as reflecting a pragmatic difference between new and contrastive information.

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