Coherence-Driven Constraints on the Placement of Accent
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It is well-established that there is a correspondence between the discourse status of information (i.e., given or new) on the one hand, and whether the linguistic material that denotes that information receives accent or not. It is equally well-established, however, that this correspondence is not straightforward. For instance, sometimes linguistic material that represents new information is not accented, as in the case of went in (1):
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