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Does pragmatic beat syntax? Evidence from focus accent placement in the semi-spontaneous speech of Italian learners of German
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 93, Iss 6 (2018) (2018)
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In this paper, we investigate the prosodic marking of information structure by Italian L1 learners of German. We analyze two different contexts with non-final focus accents, i. e. narrow and broad focus contexts, mainly on sentence level while most studies discussing post-focal de-accentuation are restricted to noun phrases. For Italian learners, non-final placement of focus accents is likely to cause problems, given that in their L1, phonetic prominence is normally as-signed to the last constituent in the verbal phrase. Our initial hypothesis was that the hypothetical "cognitive universal" requiring de-accentuation of given elements might probably guide the learners in realizing the correct pitch contour in contexts with a non-final narrow focus (and pragmatic de-accentuation of the final given constituent). By contrast, the de-accentuation of phrase-final lexical verbs in broad focus contexts was expected to cause more problems given that this typologically marked syntactic structure does not exist in Italian. However, in a previous study based on read speech, de-accentuation of final given elements was managed by inter-mediate Italian learners of German L2 only slightly better than realizing a non-final focus accent in all new contexts on the argument in OV structures (success rate of 55% vs. 48%, with no statistically significant difference). In other words, both types of non-final focus accents seem to be balanced at this intermediate stage of acquisition. In this contribution, our goal is to discover whether in semi-spontaneous speech one can find the same distributional patterns of non-final focus accents in this learner variety of Italian learners of German. To this end, we analyzed recordings of oral exams from the same 10 Italian university students that had taken part in the previous study. The analysis shows that in semi-spontaneous speech production too, there is evidence for the hypothesis that pragmatics does not "beat" syntax in prosodic acquisition. Besides, when the two different data types were compared, a very high intra-speaker correlation emerged between read and semi-spontaneous speech.
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Computational linguistics. Natural language processing; Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; P101-410; P98-98.5
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/0b7e898539b04c2980a4edad7a241d4b
https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.93.4554
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Near-native, nativelike or native? Some terminological and conceptual remarks on L2 ultimate attainment research
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 93, Iss 6 (2018) (2018)
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A topic to rack our clever brains on: Premodification in Hungarian and English body-part idioms
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 89, Iss 2 (2018) (2018)
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Politeness research: Key trajectories and their applicability in intercultural communication
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 89, Iss 2 (2018) (2018)
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Emotions in the face: biology or culture? – Using idiomatic constructions as indirect evidence to inform a psychological research controversy
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 90, Iss 3 (2018) (2018)
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Prosody in Interaction
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 88, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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Erasmus-Erfahrungsberichte. Eine textlinguistische Analyse mit didaktischen Anmerkungen für den DaF-Unterricht
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 91, Iss 4 (2018) (2018)
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Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 91, Iss 4 (2018) (2018)
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Beobachtungen zum Artikelgebrauch durch Lerner des Deutschen (L1: Französisch und Italienisch)
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 91, Iss 4 (2018) (2018)
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Das deutsche Kopulaverb sein und seine thailändischen Entsprechungen
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 91, Iss 4 (2018) (2018)
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Vom Text zur Übung. Kollokationen in Lesetexten und ihre Widerspiegelung in Übungen (am Beispiel ausgewählter DaF-Lehrwerke)
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 89, Iss 2 (2018) (2018)
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Affiliations Bd 93, 6/2018
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 93, Iss 6 (2018) (2018)
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The illocution-prosody relationship and the Information Pattern in spontaneous speech according to the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 88, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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Affiliation Bd. 88, Nr. 1 (2018)
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 88, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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Affiliation Bd. 92, Nr. 5 (2018)
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 92, Iss 5 (2018) (2018)
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Zum Bekanntheitsgrad erwerbsrelevanter Phraseme des Deutschen. Eine Untersuchung bei Germanistik-Studierenden an der Nationalen Kapodistrias-Universität Athen
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 89, Iss 2 (2018) (2018)
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Construction Grammar meets Phraseology: eine Standortbestimmung
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In: Linguistik Online, Vol 90, Iss 3 (2018) (2018)
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