Testing the Reality of Focus Domains

Carlos Gussenhoven

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Phonetics and Phonology Research Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

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An experiment was carried out which was aimed at testing the hypothesis that, in English, prominence on a predicate contains no information about the "given-new" status of that predicate if it is followed by a (lexical) object that carries a sentence accent. The results are taken to lend support to a view of English prosody whereby (a) prosodic structure is not (fully) predictable from syntactic structure, and (b) the relation between "new"-ness and a sentence accent is indirect.

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1967Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 2 1972Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar

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