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Intonational Phrasing in Norwegian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Thorstein Fretheim
Affiliation:
Universited i Trondheim, Norges laererhögskole, Linguisisk institutt, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway.
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Abstract

This paper outlines a model designed for the description of East Norwegian sencetece intonation. It is argued that there is a specific kind of intonational structure in Norwegian that is restricted to assertions and which will therefore normally be perceived as a prosodic clue to the indentification of assertive clauses, whether embedded ro syntactically independent.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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