Book chapter
Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, Vol.15, pp.158-176
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2019
Abstract
This paper sheds light on the conditions for post-focal and post-verbal compression in French canonical sentences. We report on a production experiment, which results suggest that arguments and adjuncts are phrased differently, and that length and information structure only exert a significant influence on the realization of adjuncts. We formalize these results in terms of phrasing, arguing that French, as opposed to English for instance, does not allow compression at any prosodic level, but only in syntactically motivated prosodic phrases. We motivate the variation in our data via optional phrasing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences
- Creators
- Emilie Destruel JohnsonCaroline Féry
- Contributors
- Ingo FeldhausenMartin ElsigImme KuchenbrandtMareike Neuhaus
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, Vol.15, pp.158-176
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company; Amsterdam
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2019
- Academic Unit
- French and Italian; Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222808302771
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