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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax
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The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference found in these two pairs of languages follows from a division of labor across language modules, such that two extreme values of the continuum of possible interactions across modules are available as well as combinations of morphological and intonational markers. At one extreme, in languages such as Inuktitut and Quechua, a rich set of morphemes with scope over constituents convey sentence-level and discourse-level distinctions, making the alignment of intonational patterns and information structure apparently redundant. At the other extreme, as in English and to some extent Spanish, a series of consistent alignments of PF and syntactic structure are required to distinguish sentence types and to determine the information value of a constituent. This results in a complementary distribution of morphology and intonation in these languages. In contact situations, overlap between patterns of module interaction are attested. Evidence from Quechua–Spanish and Inuktitut–English bilinguals supports a bidirectionality of crosslinguistic influence; intonational patterns emerge in non-intonational languages to distinguish sentence types, whereas morphemes or discourse particles emerge in intonational languages to mark discourse-level features.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/109606
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040207
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Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond | Kontakt, Variation und Wandel in und jenseits der Romania : Studies in honor of Trudel Meisenburg | Festschrift für Trudel Meisenburg
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Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond : studies in honor of Trudel Meisenburg = Kontakt, Variation und Wandel in und jenseits der Romania : Festschrift für Trudel Meisenburg
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The L2 Production of Spanish Taps and Trills by L1 Romanian and L1 French Speakers
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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement
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“Are You Asking Me or Telling Me?” Perception and Production of Y/N Questions and Statements in L2 Spanish
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Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties : a perception study
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“Yo no Hablo Italiano (no)”. Negative Doubling in Chipilo, Mexico
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The Mixed Effects of Phonetic Input Variability on Relative Ease of L2 Learning: Evidence from English Learners’ Production of French and Spanish Stop-Rhotic Clusters
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Gradient and Categorical Effects in Native and Non-native Nasal-rhotic Coordination
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2018)
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The Speaker-Oriented Use of Estar: Semantic Variation in the [Copula + Adjective] Context in Buenos Aires Spanish
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Introducción: Fonética y fonología del español de la Argentina
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In: Signo y seña, ISSN 2314-2189, Nº 27, 2015, pags. 3-10 (2015)
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RAE (2011): Nueva gramática de la lengua española: fonética y fonología, Madrid, Espasa Calpe
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In: Estudios de fonética experimental; 2012: Vol.: 21; 243-251 (2013)
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