Multiple accent in alternative questions

Type of Publication: Contribution to a conference collection
Publication status: Published
URI (citable link): http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1gfyksnsyvn662
Author: Meertens, Erlinde; Egger, Sophie; Romero, Maribel
Year of publication: 2019
Conference: Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Sep 5, 2018 - Sep 7, 2018, Barcelona
Published in: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 / Espinal, M. Teresa; Castroviejo, Elena; Leonetti, Manuel et al. (ed.). - Konstanz : University of Konstanz, 2019. - pp. 179-196. - eISSN 2629-6055. - ISBN 978-1-07-818848-7
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i2.605
Summary:
Alternative Questions (AltQs) are typically characterized by two prosodic cues: a final falling boundary tone and a pitch accent on each disjunct. Recent accounts in the literature have taken the final fall as the central surface cue for AltQ interpretation or have assigned a vacuous semantic contribution to the multiple accent on the disjuncts. Based on data from English and Turkish, we argue that both cues are equally important and require modelling in a unified account of AltQs. Combining ingredients from the literature (Roberts, 1996; Biezma, 2009; Westera, 2017), we propose that, essentially, the multiple accent shapes the Question under Discussion (QUD) and that the final fall, or the lack thereof, indicates restrictions on the content of the QUD via (un)satisfaction of Attention Maxims.
Subject (DDC): 400 Philology, Linguistics
Keywords: Alternative Questions, prosody, discourse, focus, Q-particles, Turkish
Link to License: In Copyright
Bibliography of Konstanz: Yes

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MEERTENS, Erlinde, Sophie EGGER, Maribel ROMERO, 2019. Multiple accent in alternative questions. Sinn und Bedeutung 23. Barcelona, Sep 5, 2018 - Sep 7, 2018. In: ESPINAL, M. Teresa, ed., Elena CASTROVIEJO, ed., Manuel LEONETTI, ed. and others. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23. Konstanz:University of Konstanz, pp. 179-196. eISSN 2629-6055. ISBN 978-1-07-818848-7. Available under: doi: 10.18148/sub/2019.v23i2.605

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