Daniel Hirst

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel Hirst is involved.

Title

Prosody and Iconicity

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst

The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.

Article

Hirst, Daniel 2013 UK declarative rises and the frequency code Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Article

One of the most often-cited generalisations about intonation is that in a majority of languages from all over the world, falling intonation is systematically associated with statements and rising intonation with questions and continuations. John Ohala’s frequency code (1983), according to which… read more