Intensity in Narrow Focus across Varieties of South African English
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The paper reports on an elicited production study that investigates prosodic marking of narrow focus in contact varieties of South African English. The acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency and intensity in narrow focus is presented and discussed. The results suggest that intensity is used differently in the contact varieties as compared to the standard variety with potential perceptual consequences.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011