TY  - CHAP
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Herbst, Laura
T1  - German sentence accent revisited
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 1
N2  - 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.
KW  - prosody
KW  - syntax
KW  - information structure
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10043
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112328
UR  - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/827/
SP  - 43
EP  - 75
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -