Sentence stress and pause are closely connected prosodic characteristics: the speaker can emphasise an important word through greater intensity of speech (sentence stress) or through a (longer) pause. The paper assesses the frequency of (non-)occurrence of silent or empty pauses adjacent to emphasised words (largely through intensity) in a two-hour corpus of ten Slovene talk programmes with political content; in contrast to some foreign studies, it is ascertained that just over a half of instances of sentence stress do not occur with silent or empty pauses.
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