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URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8273
URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/827/

Féry, Caroline ; Herbst, Laura
Weitere Beteiligte (Hrsg. etc.): Ishihara, Shinichiro , Schmitz, Michaela , Schwarz, Anne (eds.)

German sentence accent revisited

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Kurzfassung in Englisch

Results of a production experiment on the placement of sentence accent in German are reported. The hypothesis that German fulfills some of the most widely accepted rules of accent assignment— predicting focus domain integration—was only partly confirmed. Adjacency between argument and verb induces a single accent on the argument, as recognized in the literature, but interruption of this sequence by a modifier often induces remodeling of the accent pattern with a single accent on the modifier. The verb is rarely stressed. All models based on linear alignment or adjacency between elements belonging to a single accent domain fail to account for this result. A cyclic analysis of prosodic domain formation is proposed in an optimality-theoretic framework that can explain the accent pattern. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.

SWD-Schlagwörter: -

Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): Prosody , Syntax , Information structure

RVK - Regensburger Verbundklassifikation: ER 300

Collection: Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2004) 01

Institut: Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

DDC-Sachgruppe: Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Sonstige beteiligte Institution: Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur

Dokumentart: b Aufsatz

ISBN: 1866-4725

Quelle: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 1

Sprache: Englisch

Erstellungsjahr: 2004

Publikationsdatum: 07.09.2006

Bemerkung: erschienen in:
Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2004. - (ISIS ; 1)
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8237

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