Pre-focal givenness and accentuation in Estonian

A well-known factor affecting sentence prosody is Information Structure, including the givenness vs. newness of the information conveyed by a constituent. In many languages, givenness is expressed prosodically either by deaccentuation (e.g. [1]) or by a less prominent realisation of the accent, which may be achieved either by phonological means like accent type (e.g. [2]), or by phonetic means like reduced pitch range (e.g. [3]). Studies on the prosodic expression of Information Structure in Estonian ([4], [5]) have found that post-focal given information is deaccented, whereas pre-focal given information is accented, but the accent is acoustically less prominent than the corresponding new information accent; no phonological correlates of givenness in terms of pitch accent type have been found.