Accenting Deaccenting and Information Structure in Italian Dialogue
Cinzia Avesani, Mario Vayra · 2005
Do Italian speakers deaccent given information?In this study we examined word tokens repeatedly mentioning the same entity within a task-oriented dialogue.Contrary to what is expected in Germanic languages, results show that the vast majority of the repeated mentions are accented irrespective of their being hearer/discourse given or discourse segment given .