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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)
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Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
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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 more to be added... 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)
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Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
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Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)
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