Information structure and phrase length as predictors of AP-initial accents

• Main Authors: German, James, D'Imperio, Mariapaola
• 其他作者: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• 格式: Conference or Workshop Item
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2014
• 主題: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103639; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19268

This study addresses the relationship between information structure and prosodic form in French. More specifically, it tests whether phrase-initial accents (LHi) are associated with the left edge of contrastively focused constituents in wh-interrogatives. Since word length has also been correlated w...