The idea for this textbook emerged when Sandra was teaching corpus linguistics to
linguistics and computational linguistics students at Indiana University. One of the goals of …

The main objective of the paper is to show that for an adequate analysis of an item's
information status in spoken language two levels of givenness have to be investigated: a …

In this article we discuss some empirical results concerning the impact of different levels of
information status (ie referents and words, respectively) on the prosodic realisation of …

Many tests have been used in eliciting focus constructions and determining what type of
focus a certain linguistic strategy expresses. This paper provides an overview of the various …

While recent studies have claimed that non-referential gestures (ie, gestures that do not
visually represent any semantic content in speech) are used to mark discourse-new and/or …

The purpose of the RefLex annotation scheme (Baumann and Riester 2012) is the two-
dimensional analysis of textual or spoken corpus data with regard to referential information …

The article discusses several issues relevant for the annotation of written and spoken corpus
data with information structure. We discuss ways to identify focus top-down (via questions …

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor.| Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor. Title: Language variation
and language change across the lifespan: theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel …

Human language is essentially multimodal and recent studies within the field of gesture
research have shown both the strong temporal relationship between manual co-speech …

In a production experiment and two follow-up perception experiments on read German we
investigated the relation between givenness (also called information status) and prosody …