Focus in Words with Truth Values
This article analyses the prosodic properties of words with truth values in Turkish. These are morphologically complex items that are finite predicates and that can function as declarative sentences. Researchers who have worked on morphologically complex words have generally taken the view that stre...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/72531 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/72531 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Contrastive focus Presentational focus Prosody Word structure Word stress Information structure Turkish Foco contrastivo Foco informativo Prosodia Estructura de la palabra Acento de la palabra Estructura informativa Turco Foco apresentacional Prosódia Estructura da palavra Acento de palabra Estructura informacional |
| Sumario: | This article analyses the prosodic properties of words with truth values in Turkish. These are morphologically complex items that are finite predicates and that can function as declarative sentences. Researchers who have worked on morphologically complex words have generally taken the view that stress occupies a unique position and that this is a consequence of their morphophonological properties. Here we draw attention to data originally due to Sebüktekin (1984) that challenge this position. This data show that the position of stress is variable in morphologically complex words that are declarative constructions, an outcome which is natural given that prosodic prominence as the phonological correlate of focus is expected to be found in all declaratives. The variation in prominence will thus be argued to be similar to that which occurs in sentences with multiple constituents, and that which reflects the difference between presentational and contrastive focus. The investigation thus brings together two separate lines of research concerning Turkish: the location of stress in morphologically complex words, and the location of pitch in presentational and contrastive focus sentences. The findings will be discussed in the context of their implications for hierarchical views of prosodic prominence and hypotheses concerning focus-alignment |
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