Why do speakers accent 'given' information ?
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The accenting of contextually ‘given’ information constitutes a problem for analyses that regard accents as correlating only with ‘new’ information. It will be shown that the accenting of ‘given’ information is explainable as resulting from general metrical well-formedness conditions on prosodic constituents. Units higher than the word are seen to obey the same metrical constraints that are present at the word level.
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