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Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language

Florence Baills Stefan Baumann

Abstrak

Prosody and gesture are two known cues for expressing information structure by emphasising new or important elements in spoken discourse while attenuating given information. Applying this potentially multimodal form-meaning mapping to a foreign language may be difficult for learners. This study investigates how native speakers and language learners use prosodic prominence and head gestures to differentiate levels of givenness.

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Language and Literature Consciousness. Cognition

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Florence Baills

Stefan Baumann

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Baills, F., Baumann, S. (2025). Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.11

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Tahun Terbit: 2025
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2025.11
Akses: Open Access ✓