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With single sentence examples, it's hard to tell whether this handles informational prosody, e.g. the given/new distinction, or infamous "John called Bill a Rep
by jrd259 4y ago
With single sentence examples, it's hard to tell whether this handles informational prosody, e.g. the given/new distinction, or infamous "John called Bill a Republican, and then he insulted him" where the accent means that the antecedent of he is Bill, not John, which further implies that "calling X a Republican" is an insult.
- jrd259 4y agoFor example, compare "The army found the people in poverty and left them in comparative wealth." There should be contrastive stress on "wealth", or possibly "comparative", at least in my dialect of English