Ann Wennerstrom

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ann Wennerstrom is involved.

Articles

Wennerstrom, Ann 2013 Rich pitch: The humorous effects of deaccent and L+H* pitch accent Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Article

This paper argues that intonation contributes to the humorous meaning of a certain class of jokes. Examples of both canned and spontaneous jokes show that two intonation patterns, the intonation of contrast, or “L+H* pitch accent”, and the intonation of given information, or “deaccent”, can… read more

Wennerstrom, Ann 2011 Rich pitch: The humorous effects of deaccent and L+H* pitch accent Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 310–332 | Article

This paper argues that intonation contributes to the humorous meaning of a certain class of jokes. Examples of both canned and spontaneous jokes show that two intonation patterns, the intonation of contrast, or “L+H* pitch accent”, and the intonation of given information, or “deaccent”, can… read more