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The many colors of prominence: a pilot study of topic prosodic units

This paper examines prominence from a pragmatic, phonological and acoustic-articulatory perspective. Based on results of a corpus-based analysis of Topic prosodic units in four languages (Italian, Brazilian and European Portuguese, and American English), three types of topic prosodic forms (TPFs) ar...

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Main Authors:	Erickson, Donna, Raso, Tommaso, Lundmark, Malin Svensson, Frid, Johan, Coulange, Sylvain
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2025
Subjects:	Topic Prominence Articulation Pragmatics Phonology
Online Access:	https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/joss/article/view/20381
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