“Are you being ironic?” Good question! The literal meaning is not always the intended one. An interdisciplinary research team at @MPI_ae found that irony is primarily signaled by moving stress within a sentence. Learn more here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023- :general

#prominence #pitchaccent #irony #intonation #prosody #voiceacoustics #psychology #journalofexperimentalpsychology

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Terry Wallwork · @terrywallwork
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sim · @srdd
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not speaking norwegian very often these days makes me realize how *weird* some sentences and pitch accents are

exhibit a

"oh, is that what it is?"

"å, e de dé de e?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#language #pitchaccent #norwegian #nynorsk

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