Prosodic encoding of information structure - AAA500194
Anglický název: Prosodic encoding of information structure
Zajišťuje: Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky (21-UAJD)
Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
Platnost: od 2024
Semestr: zimní
Body: 0
E-Kredity: 5
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neomezen (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Kompetence:  
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Úroveň:  
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
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Garant: doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
Vyučující: doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
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Anotace
This seminar is concerned with the prosodic encoding of information structure in English and possibly in other languages (depending on the interest of the students). Three key information-structural oppositions will be considered: focus-background, given-new, and topic-comment. It is commonly assumed (and experimentally confirmed) that focused constituents attract sentence stress and given ones avoid it. While there is arguably no dedicated prosodic encoding of plain (abboutness) topics, there is a special prosodic contour encoding the so-called contrastive topic. The relation between prosody and word order will also be discussed. After laying out the theoretical background (concerning information structure, prosody, and their mutual relationship), we will concentrate on empirical studies (experimental or corpus-based) which address specific issues relevant to the topic of the seminar. The seminar will be of interest to anybody interested in information structure, discourse pragmatics, sentence prosody and intonation, syntax and semantics, and empirical methods in linguistics.
Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
  • learn about current approaches to information structure
  • learn about the prosodic structure of utterances
  • learn about how prosody and word order are related
  • learn about empirical methods (experimental and corpus-based) applied in the study of information structure and prosody
Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
Literatura - angličtina

Theoretical background

Baumann, Stefan and Arndt Riester. 2013. Coreference, lexical givenness, and prosody in German. Lingua 136, 16-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.012

Calhoun, Sasha. 2010. The centrality of metrical structure in signaling information structure: A probabilistic perspective. Language 86(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0197

Féry, Caroline. 2007. The prosody of topicalization. In Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler (eds.), On information structure, meaning, and form: Generalizations across languages, 69-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Féry, Caroline and Frank Kügler. 2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics 36(4), 680-703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2008.05.001

Katz, Jonah and Elisabeth Selkirk. 2011. Contrastive focus vs. discourse new: Evidence from phonetic prominence in English. Language 87(4), 771-816. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2011.0076

Krifka, Manfred. 2008. Notions of information structure. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55(3-4), 243-276. https://doi.org/10.1556/ALing.55.2008.3-4.2 (Also available as Krifka 2007, at https://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/images/isis/isis06.pdf)

Kügler, Frank and Sasha Calhoun. 2020. Prosodic encoding of information structure: A typological perspective. In Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language prosody, 454-467. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.30

Selkirk, Elisabeth. 2011. The syntax-phonology interface. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.), The handbook of phonological theory, second edition. Oxford: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444343069.ch14

Wagner, Michael. 2012. Focus and givenness: A unified approach. In Ivona Kučerová and Ad Neeleman (eds.), Contrasts and positions in information structure, 102-147. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511740084.007

Wagner, Michael. 2021. Prosodic focus. In Daniel Gutzmann, Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, and Thomas E. Zimmermann (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to semantics, vol. 4, 2431-2505. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem133

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Further literature

Individual studies to be discussed will be provided in seminar. Suggestions from students are welcome.

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
Požadavky ke zkoušce - angličtina
  • active participation in the seminar (maximum of 3 absences)
  • reading assigned materials
  • leading a topical discussion / presenting a paper / written assignment (10 pages)
Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
Sylabus - angličtina
  • notions of information structure
    • focus-background
    • given-new
    • topic-comment
  • prosody, intonation
    • word stress, phrase stress, utterance-level stress
    • phonetic correlates of phonological stress/accent
    • deaccenting
    • boundary tones
    • ToBI
  • prosodic encoding of focus
    • new focus
    • contrastive focus
  • prosodic encoding of givenness
    • discourse givenness
    • other types of givenness
  • prosodic encoding of topic
    • plain topic
    • contrastive topic
Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)