Single prosodic phrase sentences
- A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are reported on here. The results help us to decide between different models of German prosody. The absence of pitch height difference on the accent of the sentence speaks in favor of a relative model of prosody, in which accents are scaled relative to each other, and against models in which pitch accents are scaled in an absolute way. The results also speak for a model in which syntax, but not information structure, influences the prosodic phrasing. Finally, perception experiments show that the prosodic structure of sentences with a marked word order needs to be presented for grammaticality judgments. Presentation of written material only is not enough, and falsifies the results.
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| Author: | Caroline Féry, Heiner Drenhaus |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112588 |
| URL: | http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis10_1fery.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., S. Petrova, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 10 |
| Publisher: | Univ.-Verl. |
| Place of publication: | Potsdam |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2008/11/06 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2008/11/06 |
| Tag: | experimental linguistics; prosody |
| Page Number: | 44 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 44 |
| Source: | Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 10, 2008, S. 1-44 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis10_1fery.pdf |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 208064265 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
