4. Prosodic Manifestations of Focus 4.1 The Nuclear Stress Rule ...

Prosodic Manifestations of Focus. 4.1 The Nuclear Stress Rule and its Critics. Chomsky & Halle (1968) presented two stress rules:.

Prosodic Focus - OSF

that does not introduce a focus presupposition—is derived by a set of principles (sometimes called “the nuclear stress rule”) that we will not ...

THE PROSODIC MARKING OF DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS

which bears the main or nuclear stress (see, for instance, Ladd 2008). ... However, before we come to for- malize the prosodic encoding of Focus in §4, we propose ...

Review article Focus, p-movement, and the nuclear-stress rule

representation like S-structure is the fact that a rule like the FPR refers to both prosodic features (i.e. assignment of prominence) and features of ...

Focus Projection and Prosodic Prominence in Nested Foci

Nuclear Stress Rule (Chomsky & Halle 1968) by assigning stress rightmost whenever no other constraint interferes with them. This is for example the case in ...

Class 8, 3/22/15: Assigning Stress - Bruce Hayes

Page 4. Linguistics 251. Class 8, 4/22/15: Transcribing Stress p. 4. • Example: the Nuclear Stress Rule (Chomsky, Halle, and Lukoff 19561. ) In a syntactic ...

The inverse relation of pre-nuclear and nuclear prominences in ...

Pre-nuclear words are realized with more prosodic prominence when they are part of a broad focus than when they are pre-focal before a non-corrective narrow ...

Nuclear accent placement in broad focus intransitives in native and ...

One aspect of English phrasal prosody that has been included in L2 studies investigating both transfer and universal factors is the nuclear ...

STRESS SHIFT AND PROSODIC FOCUS MARKING IN L1 AND L2 ...

Keywords: Stress clash, rhythm rule, double-focus,. L2 prosody. 1 ... (síchtbar → únsichtbàr) [10, 19, 4], stress shift is not as regularly used, and is ...

Focus in wh-questions | Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh-questions in Italian, showing that the Nuclear Pitch Accent (NPA) and main stress ...

Focus Projection in NLeMkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish)

Thus, focus projects from the nuclear stress position. (5) a. What ... Since stress is the manifestation of a particular prosodic category, namely prosodic ...

Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right ...

broad focus. Thus, according to the nuclear stress rule, the object is accented. ... conjunct is a reflection of the ellipsis. ... can be found in ...

Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right ...

The crucial difference lies in the contrastive focus, which, in RNR sentences, obviously overrides the nuclear stress rule (Féry & Samek-Lodovici 2006). Selkirk ...

A comparative analysis of English nuclear stress principles in ...

that align these differing levels and features (e.g. prosodic units, stresses, focus and sentences). This analysis also attempts to account for other stress ...

Tracing the Phonetic Space of Prosodic Focus Marking - Frontiers

(1985), Eady and Cooper (1986), and Fowler (1995) found higher F0 in accented syllables in contrastive or narrow focus compared to unaccented ...

Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right ...

The crucial difference lies in the contrastive focus, which, in RNR sentences, obviously overrides the nuclear stress rule (Féry & Samek-Lodovici 2006). Selkirk ...

The Syntax and Prosody of Focus: the Bantu-Italian Connection1

Yet, it is the p-boundary, and not the Nuclear Stress which serves to prosodically identify the focused ... Rule is a stress retraction or a stress enhancement ...

Prosodic-structural modulation of stop voicing contrast along the ...

... (stressed) syllable received a nuclear pitch accent driven by a contrastive focus. This suggests that the accent-driven prominence effect is localized to the ...

Focus Realization in Heritage Spanish (Chapter 8)

The Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR) predicts that nuclear stress/accent is ... Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian and ...

Revisiting prosodic reconstruction 1 Introduction - Marta Wierzba

Bresnan proposes to model this by cyclic application of the Nuclear Stress Rule, which strengthens the stress ... focus interpretation when sentence stress falls ...