Routes to Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse
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Perceived prominence in Russian, a free word order language, can be communicated prosodically and/or via word order. Paired production and perception experiments with native speakers show that discourse-prominent constituents are marked acoustically and through a change in word order. These two route to prominence may reinforce each other, as evident from distinctively higher duration and intensity values associated with ex-situ words, as well as their higher visibility in discourse.
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