Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence
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Intonational means to mark Verum focus in German and French.
German and French differ in a number of aspects. Regarding the prosody-pragmatics interface, German is said to have a direct focus-to-accent mapping, which is largely absent in French--owing to strong structural constraints. We used a semi-spontaneous dialogue setting to investigate the intonational marking of Verum Focus, a focus on the polarity of an utterance in the two languages (e.g. the c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2397-1835
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.347