کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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935301 | 923852 | 2015 | 24 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Nominal deaccentuation requires neither givenness of N nor overt alternatives.
• Nominal deaccentuation requires an alternative entity currently under discussion.
• If given modified nouns are accented, their antecedent cannot be under discussion.
• Two referring expressions cannot be contrastive and coreferential at the same time.
• Sometimes, nominal deaccentuation is due to rhythm and has no focus interpretation.
We investigate a semantic–pragmatic hypothesis (relative givenness, Wagner, 2006) on an annotated corpus of German speech data. We show that nominal deaccentuation in an [A N] (adjective–noun) combination neither requires the givenness of N nor the availability of a different [A′ N] sequence in the overt discourse context but results from the fact that a referentially distinct alternative is either explicitly or implicitly under discussion. If no such alternative is under discussion, given nouns typically receive main prominence.
Journal: Lingua - Volume 165, Part B, October 2015, Pages 230–253