Steven Schaefer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven Schaefer is involved.

Article

Schaefer, Steven 2013 Beyond the given: An enunciative approach to the prosody of thematicity in English Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 89–108 | Article

This paper argues for the discursive pertinence of utterance elements receiving prosodic prominence, and against a one-to-one iconic relationship between “new” vs. “given” information on the one hand and presence/absence of pitch accent on the other. The prevalent “information flow” approach… read more