This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a
general characterization of IS—following Chafe (1976)—within a communicative model of …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

This paper considers a set of presupposition triggers including focus, questions,'contrastive'
statives and an 'affirmation/negation'construction involving and not, where presuppositions …

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and
characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its …

The results of a production experiment show that English speakers distinguish elements
under contrastive focus from elements that are merely new in the discourse. A novel …

In this article we will explore the consequences of adopting recent proposals by Chomsky,
according to which the syntactic derivation proceeds in terms of phases. The notion of phase …