stein, dieter
Taking as points of departure modern pragmatic theory and the information-theoretic view of communication offered by Levinson, this paper re-defines the notion of “genre” as a primarily top-down functioning kind of pre-existing, conventionalized package deal in construing meaning. As a consequence, this paper argues for relativizing the role of cod...
Booth, Hannah Groothuis, Kim A.
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Open Linguistics
Recent research has highlighted the existence of expletive(-like) elements in various languages that are related to discourse, serving as fillers for designated topic/focus positions and/or contributing specific discourse–pragmatic effects. Such elements pose a number of challenges and opportunities, both for our overall conception of expletives an...
hein, johannes
While strong islands generally constitute domains from which extraction is not possible, it has been observed that under certain conditions, they may allow DP but not PP gaps. Based on the recent literature on Asante Twi (Kwa, Ghana) and on novel data from Limbum (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon), this paper shows that strong island configurations in t...
Irurtzun, Aritz
The grammar of focus displays a wide range of multimodular effects (in semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology). The classical analysis of focus stemming from the Principles & Parameters framework considered it as an essentially syntactic phenomenon (with interface consequences), and this is still the core idea under the cartographic approache...
Yang, Anqi Cho, Taehong Kim, Sahyang Chen, Aoju
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Prosodic focus marking in Seoul Korean is known to be achieved primarily through prosodic phrasing, different from the use of prosody for this purpose in many other languages. This study investigates how children use prosodic phrasing for focus-marking purposes in Seoul Korean, compared to adults. Methods Using a picture-matching game,...
Destruel, Emilie Lalande, Louise Chen, Aoju
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction French is traditionally described as a language favoring syntactic means to mark focus, yet recent research shows that prosody is also used. We examine how French-speaking children use prosody to realize narrow focus and contrastive focus in the absence of syntactic means, compared to adults. Method We elicited SVO sentences using a vi...
a. rogers, brandon m. face, timothy l.
Intonational plateaus exist in Chilean Spanish in contexts in which they do not exist in any other variety of Spanish. Mapudungun, which has been in contact with Chilean Spanish for centuries, also has plateaus in similar contexts, although for years, the possibility of any influence of Mapudungun on Spanish has been largely dismissed. The present ...
Maria de Paolis, Bianca
Notre étude explore le rôle de la durée vocalique comme indice de focalisation, à la fois en italien et en français, tant pour les locuteurs natifs que pour les apprenants L2. Nous visons à décrire l’influence potentielle de la L1 sur la L2 concernant cet indice. L’analyse porte sur la parole élicitée de 60 participants, répartis en quatre groupes ...
de Iacovo, Valentina
Our study investigates the role of vowel duration as acue for focus marking in both L1 and L2 Italian and French.We aim to compare our data to highlight potential influencesof the native language on L2 productions in the use of thiscue. The analysis involves task-elicited speech from 60 partici-pants: 15 native Italian speakers, 15 native French sp...
Larrivée, Pierre
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Linguistics
Quantitative studies of V2 in Medieval French have produced diverging results with respect to the rate of use of V2 and the informational value of the initial XP. These divergences are hypothesized to relate to the register of investigated texts. The hypothesis is verified by the systematic analysis of unambiguous V2 (with an expressed post-verbal ...