When is a wh-in-situ question identified in standard Persian?

Shiamizadeh, Zohreh; Caspers, Johanneke; Schiller, Niels O.

doi:10.1080/23273798.2018.1463444

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“…Abolhasanizadeh et al, 2012) which may lead to communicative problems for Persian EFL speakers. It has also been observed that the melodies of English and Persian, especially in the case of wh-questions (Shiamizadeh, 2018), differ in ways that may compromise the comprehensibility of Persian-accented English.…”

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Relative contribution of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody to the quality of consecutive interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreting trainees

Yenkimaleki¹,

Heuven

2020

Interactive Learning Environments

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This study investigates the effect of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody on the quality of interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreter trainees. Participants were native speakers of Farsi and BA students of English translation and interpreting in Iran, who were assigned to one of three groups. No differences in English language skills were found between the groups prior to the experiment. The control group listened to and discussed English audio and video recordings and did exercises in consecutive interpreting. One experimental group instead spent part of the time on explanation of, and exercises with, English prosody. The second experimental group spent part of the time on explanation of, and exercises with, English segmentals. Total instruction time was 12 hours for each group. The students' performance in consecutive interpreting was then rated independently by three experts. Results showed that both experimental groups performed better than the control group. Moreover, teaching prosody had a larger positive effect on the overall quality of interpreting from Farsi into English than segmental instruction. We argue that the interpreting curriculum can be strengthened by devoting a small portion of the time to explicit instruction on segmental and (especially) prosodic differences between source and target language.

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Section: English and Farsi Sound Systems Comparedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relative contribution of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody to the quality of consecutive interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreting trainees

Yenkimaleki¹,

Heuven

2020

Interactive Learning Environments

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“…Consequently, prosody can be expected to play a role of primary importance in marking these sentences as questions (cf. Shiamizadeh et al 2018). Although a post-verbal wh-element in Italian does not need to appear in sentence-final position (as it happens in languages such as Spanish, cf.…”

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Italian wh-questions and the low periphery

Badan

Crocco

2021

Linguistics

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This article deals with Italian questions with a post-verbal wh-element, which are generally defined as in situ. We show that post-verbal wh-questions can be interpreted as information-seeking questions, and provide syntactic arguments supporting the hypothesis that the post-verbal wh-element is only apparently in situ. We claim that, in certain contexts, the post-verbal wh-element undergoes a syntactic movement targeting a low-peripheral focus position dedicated to the expression of informational focus. We integrate our analysis with the examination of a number of cases of low-peripheral wh-elements from the CLIPS and LIP corpora of spoken Italian. As for prosody, the available data show that a sentence-final wh-element carries the nuclear accent of the utterance. Moreover, low-peripheral wh-questions seem pragmatically more restricted compared to their counterparts with a fronted wh-. Although further investigation may reveal additional contexts for the questions at stake, low-peripheral wh-questions need to be linked to the preceding discourse context and can be used to add emphasis to the missing piece of information represented by the wh-element. Our low-peripheral analysis complements the current left-peripheral analysis of Italian wh-questions: wh-elements in left and low periphery display different interpretive and prosodic properties, indicating that they are involved in different phenomena. The results of this study also support the view that the low periphery is more subject to pragmatic restrictions compared to the left periphery.

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Интонация русского частного вопроса / The Intonation of Russian Wh-questions

Duryagin

2024

Biblioteca Di Studi Slavistici

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In studies of Russian prosody, wh-questions have traditionally received less attention compared to polar questions and declaratives. However, the range of pragmatic meanings that native speakers of Russian convey in this phrase type is remarkably broad; previous research reports intonational means of marking reproach, interest, scolding, bewilderment, annoyance, and excitement. This monograph explores how pragmatics and information structure are conveyed in Russian wh-questions through intonation. Based on experimental and corpus data, the study offers a phonological analysis of the observed tunes, identifies patterns of prosodic variability, and proposes an explanatory model for this variation.

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When is a wh-in-situ question identified in standard Persian?

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Relative contribution of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody to the quality of consecutive interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreting trainees

Relative contribution of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody to the quality of consecutive interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreting trainees

Italian wh-questions and the low periphery

Интонация русского частного вопроса / The Intonation of Russian Wh-questions

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