Syntax-prosody mapping, topic-comment structure and stress-focus correspondence in Hungarian
Surányi, Balázs ; Ishihara, Shinichiro LU
and Schubö, Fabian
(2012)
In Interface Explorations
25.
p.35-71
- Abstract
This paper investigates the basic prosodic structure of Hungarian and its inter-
action with information structure, in particular the following two aspects: the
prosodic realization of the topic-comment partition, and the resolution of
conflicts that may potentially arise between the basic algorithms of the syntax-
prosody mapping on the one hand, and the prosodic requirement of the focus
constituent to contain nuclear stress (stress-focus correspondence) on the other .
We report the results of a production experiment in which we examined sen-
tences where the semantic focus constituent is not in the position of the de-
fault nuclear stress and is unable to be placed there by a syntactic... (More)This paper investigates the basic prosodic structure of Hungarian and its inter-
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action with information structure, in particular the following two aspects: the
prosodic realization of the topic-comment partition, and the resolution of
conflicts that may potentially arise between the basic algorithms of the syntax-
prosody mapping on the one hand, and the prosodic requirement of the focus
constituent to contain nuclear stress (stress-focus correspondence) on the other .
We report the results of a production experiment in which we examined sen-
tences where the semantic focus constituent is not in the position of the de-
fault nuclear stress and is unable to be placed there by a syntactic transforma-
tion . Regarding the topic-comment partition, our data reveals that there is a
systematic prosodic difference between the two parts of a sentence in terms of
pitch accent type: H*L is the default accent within the comment, while topic
phrases are realized with a variety of pitch accents, but not with H*L . With re-
spect to the conflict between the syntax-prosody mapping and the stress-focus
correspondence, we found three resolution strategies: (i) adjusting the location
of the topic-comment partition by avoiding the (default) comment accent H*L
in pre-focal positions; (ii) extending the F0-register of the narrowly focused
element while keeping the default prosodic phrasing intact; and (iii) making
no changes (in compliance to the requirement of stress-focus correspondence) .
Finally, we discuss several possible theoretical analyses that may derive these
effects .
- author
- Surányi, Balázs
; Ishihara, Shinichiro
LU
and Schubö, Fabian
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012-12-06
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Hungarian, Stress-focus correspondence, Topic-comment structure
- host publication
- Prosody and Meaning
- series title
- Interface Explorations
- editor
- Elordieta, Gorka and Prieto, Pilar
- volume
- 25
- pages
- 37 pages
- publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85050485038
- ISSN
- 1861-4167
- ISBN
- 9783110260076
- 9783110261790
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783110261790.35
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.
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- 89356b6b-5558-4abd-9b87-730d2ea208a8
- date added to LUP
- 2021-12-02 10:21:39
- date last changed
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