11. Doubling

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of tables XIII
4. List of figures XV
5. Acknowledgments XIX
6. Glossing conventions XXI
7. List of sign languages and their abbreviations XXIII
8. Part I: Introduction
9. 1. Introduction 1
10. 2. Puzzles of information structure 17
11. 3. Methodological issues 43
12. Part II: Topics
13. 4. Topics in sign languages 51
14. 5. Quantitative analysis of topics in RSL and NGT 67
15. 6. Topic prominence 81
16. 7. Discourse topics and modality effects 89
17. Part III: Focus
18. 8. Focus in sign languages 105
19. 9. A quantitative study of focus in RSL and NGT 119
20. 10. Contrast 171
21. 11. Doubling 183
22. 12. A corpus study of question-answer pairs in NGT 205
23. Part IV: Conclusions
24. 13. Sign languages and typology of information structure 233
25. Appendix 1. Stimuli for the study of focus in RSL and NGT 255
26. Appendix 2. Testing reliability of coding for manual prosodic markers 261
27. References 267
28. Subject Index 279
29. Notes 283