trueAlternatives: trueAlternatives
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Placing contrastive prosodic prominence on a word requires a contrsative alternative. But what counts as an 'alternative'? This dataset from a production experiment illustrates that at least when it comes to contrast marking on modifying adjectives, alternatives have to be mutually exclusive. See there references for further detail

1	trueAlternatives

A data frame with 9 variables:

participant: id of speaker
item: number of item set
context: context speaker listened to before producting target sentence
rpitch: difference in semitones between maximum pitch on adjective and noun
rintensity: difference in dB between maximum intensity on adjective and noun
rduration: difference in log duration bewteen adjective and noun
prominence: Annotation of whether prominence was shifted to adjective
trial: trial # duration experiment
text: Target text speaker was asked to respond with

Wagner, M. (2016). Information structure and production planning. In F ́ery, C. and Ishihara, S., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, pages 541–561. Oxford University Press. preprint http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.39

Wagner, M. (2018). Information structure and production planning. OSF Project project

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