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Another look at right-detached NPs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2013, December). Another look at right-detached NPs. Presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4 Conference (LDLT4), London, United Kingdom

This paper proposes an analysis of right-detached NPs constructions in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia, in which right-detached NPs serve different discourse functions, either as reactivated topics or as afterthoughts, a distinction estab... Read More about Another look at right-detached NPs.

The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schultze-Berndt, E., Wegener, C., & Simard, C. (2013, June). The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela. Paper presented at Workshop on Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC), University of Bielefeld, Germany

Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia (2013)
Journal Article
Simard, C. (2013). Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-229

This paper examines the prosodic encoding of sentence types in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia. Analyses cover the description of the contours as well as a systematic acoustic analysis, comprising the measurements of F0, duration, pitch e... Read More about Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia.