• DOI:10.1007/978-1-4020-4796-1_14
Corpus ID: 155714576

Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing

@inproceedings{Heusinger2008DiscourseSA,
  title={Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing},
  author={K. Heusinger},
  year={2008}
}

• K. Heusinger
• Published 2008
• Sociology

Theories that relate intonational structure and discourse structure concentrate on intonational and informational units that either correspond to a clause (proposition) or to a single referent. However, intermediate phrases of the intonational phrasing often segment units that are smaller than a clause, but that do not introduce a referent. Even though they are acknowledged (cf. Selkirk's "sense units"), there are no approaches that account for their role in building the discourse structure… Expand