Discourse new, F-marking, and normal stress

Rochemont, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.016

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“…Katz & Selkirk's examples show that the grammar of standard American English distinguishes constituents that are FoCused from those that are merely new. The difference 15 Apart from Chafe (1976), these authors include Rochemont (1986;2013a;2013b), Pierrehumbert & Beckman (1988), D'Imperio (1997, É. Kiss (1998), Vallduví & Vilkuna (1998), Zubizarreta (1998), Gundel (1999), Frota (2000), Belletti (2001;), Selkirk (2002, Gundel & Fretheim (2004), Féry & Samek-Lodovici (2006), Aboh (2007a;, Ameka (2010), Beaver & Velleman (2011), Katz & Selkirk (2011), Vallduví (2016, among many others.…”

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Deconstructing information structure

Kratzer

Selkirk

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as ‘information structure’ can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings, and just happen to be spelled out prosodically in Standard American and British English. We motivate two features, [FoC] and [G], and we track the fate of those features at and beyond the syntax-semantics and the syntax-phonology interfaces. [FoC] and [G] are responsible for two distinct obligatory strategies for establishing discourse coherence. A [G]-marked constituent signals a match with a discourse referent, whereas a [FoC]-marked constituent invokes alternatives and thereby signals a contrast. In Standard American and British English [FoC] aims for highest prosodic prominence in the intonational phrase, whereas [G] lacks phrase-level prosodic properties. There is no grammatical marking of newness: The apparent prosodic effects of newness are the result of default prosody.

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Deconstructing information structure

Kratzer

Selkirk

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…In this sense, the preference for shì … de over - le is obligatory in contexts like (7). We use the [given] feature proposed in Katz and Selkirk (2011) and Rochemont (2013) to capture the different requirements imposed by de and le on the VP they select (i.e. [+/−given]).…”

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“…Dissimilar to the Chinese shì … de cleft, which is a high-frequency construction in Mandarin (Sun, 2008), it -cleft is found to be extremely infrequent in corpus and translation studies (Dufter, 2009; Roland et al, 2007; Shyu, 2013). Rochemont (2013) argues that the English it -cleft is an alternatives-based focusing device, which is triggered by a [focus] feature at the intended focus constituent, rather than a structure expressing discourse-new focus (Katz and Selkirk, 2011; Rochemont, 2013). Alternatives-based focus introduces an alternative set into the discourse, and triggers non-canonical syntactic dislocation such as clefting and focus fronting in English.…”

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Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chineseshì … decleft construction by adult English speakers

Mai

Yuan

2016

Second Language Research

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This article reports an empirical study investigating L2 acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English-speaking learners within the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2009). A Sentence Completion task, an interpretation task, two Acceptability Judgement tasks, and a felicity ranking task were administered to learners with intermediate and advanced Chinese proficiency ( n = 76). The results reveal an initial mapping between the target Chinese structure and the English it-cleft construction. The relevant tense, telicity and discourse features are added in an uneven feature-by-feature manner in the subsequent feature reassembly. It is proposed that feature reassembly tasks involving cross-domain operations (e.g. from prosody to syntax) are more complicated and more difficult to accomplish than those taking place within the same linguistic domain.

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Gotzner

2017

Alternative Sets in Language Processing

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Discourse new, F-marking, and normal stress

Cited by 15 publications

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Deconstructing information structure

Deconstructing information structure

Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chineseshì … decleft construction by adult English speakers

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