Does pragmatic beat syntax? Evidence from focus accent placement in the semi-spontaneous speech of Italian learners of German

In this paper, we investigate the prosodic marking of information structure by Italian L1 learners of German. We analyze two different contexts with non-final focus accents, i. e. narrow and broad focus contexts, mainly on sentence level while most studies discussing post-focal de-accentuation are r...

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Main Authors: Barbara Vogt, Peter Paschke
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/4554