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November 11, 2025Annual Review of Linguistics

Prosodic Intensification: Between Grammar and Pragmatics

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OLOlga Lovick

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Overview

Overview reveals prosodic intensification affects scalar meanings in language, suggesting re-evaluation of its grammatical significance.

Key Points

  • This research explores the role of prosodic intensification in expressing scalar meanings across languages.
  • Crosslinguistic overview of prosodic intensification
  • Analysis of phonetic realization and iconic properties
  • Examination of potential underreporting in various languages
  • Prosodic intensification is common in lesser-known languages
  • Present in informal spoken and written registers of established languages
  • Underreporting is linked to scholarly bias towards morphosyntactic frameworks

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Olga Lovick (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69252ea3c0ce034ddc3568fdhttps://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031522-100650
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