Deconstructing the nuclear stress algorithm: Evidence from second language speech!

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  • EMILY NAVA
  • MARIA LUISA ZUBIZARRETA
چکیده

The relation between focus and prosody has long been recognized (Halliday 1967, 1970; Chomsky 1971; JackendoV 1972), but it remains an issue of contention as to how this relation is established. On the one hand, focus has an eVect on grammatical meaning. On the other hand, phrasal prominence plays an important role in determining which parts of the sentence can be interpreted as focused, i.e. as non-presupposed and under assertion. In some languages, focus aVects the overt positioning of constituents in the syntactic structure (e.g. Hungarian), but not in others (e.g. English). Establishing the connection between phrasal prominence and focus-related meaning is particularly challenging in a model of grammar (such as the standard model in generative grammar), in which syntax mediates the relation between phonology and semantics.1 One view has been to directly deWne the domain of focus in

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تاریخ انتشار 2009