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  1. English rise-fall-rise: a study in the semantics and pragmatics of intonation. [REVIEW]Noah Constant - 2012 - Linguistics and Philosophy 35 (5):407-442.
    This paper provides a semantic analysis of English rise-fall-rise (RFR) intonation as a focus quantifier over assertable alternative propositions. I locate RFR meaning in the conventional implicature dimension, and propose that its effect is calculated late within a dynamic model. With a minimum of machinery, this account captures disambiguation and scalar effects, as well as interactions with other focus operators like ‘only’ and clefts. Double focus data further support the analysis, and lead to a rejection of Ward and Hirschberg’s (Language (...)
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  • Phrase Position, but not Lexical Status, Affects the Prosody of Noun/Verb Homophones.Erin Conwell & Kellam Barta - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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