Actions for Intonation and meaning
Intonation and meaning / Daniel Büring
- Author
- Büring, Daniel
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Prominence, accent (and stress) -- 1.1.1.Perceived prominence and pitch accenting -- 1.1.2.The nuclear pitch accent -- 1.2.Default intonation -- 1.2.1.Default accenting -- 1.2.2.Predicting default accenting: a sketch -- 1.3.Focus -- 1.3.1.When default accenting is not normal accenting -- 1.3.2.Focus realization and focus projection -- 1.3.3.Introducing information structure -- 1.4.Summary and outlook -- 2.1.Givenness -- 2.2.Focus and background -- 2.2.1.F-alternatives -- 2.2.2.Focus and accenting -- 2.2.3.Focus semantics, first inspection -- 2.3.A grammar of focus and givenness -- 2.3.1.Representation -- 2.3.2.Interpretation -- 2.3.3.Realization -- 2.3.4.Enforcement -- 2.4.Arguments for keeping focussing and givenness separate -- 2.4.1.Partially given foci: given elements within a broader focus -- 2.4.2.Completely given foci -- 2.5.Larger foci and focus ambiguities -- 2.5.1.Focus ambiguity -- 2.5.2.Focus sizes: broad, wide, narrow -- 2.5.3.Focus and ellipsis -- 2.5.4.Sentential contrastive focus? -- 2.6.Chapter summary -- 3.1.Alternative Semantics: Rooth (1985, 1992b) -- 3.1.1.Composing alternatives -- 3.1.2.The Squiggle Theory -- 3.1.3.Notable properties -- 3.1.4.Rooth (1992a): bridging by entailment -- 3.1.5.Desiderata -- 3.2.F/FOC-Theory: Selkirk (1984, 1995b) -- 3.2.1.Notable properties -- 3.2.2.Problems -- 3.3.GIVENness Theory: Schwarzschild (1999) -- 3.3.1.The GIVEN relation -- 3.3.2.AvoiDF -- 3.3.3.Notable properties -- 3.3.4.Open ends -- 3.4.Chapter summary -- 3.4.1.Comparing F-conditions -- 3.4.2.Comparing F-/G-relations -- 3.4.3.Comparison of the theories -- 3.5.Appendix: definitions and technical details -- 3.5.1.Focus Semantic Values 6o -- 3.5.2.Existential closure -- 3.5.3.Existential focus closure -- 4.1.Back to F-marking plus G-marking -- 4.2.Using stacked F-domains to replace G-marking -- 4.3.Interim summary -- 4.4.Focus projection rules -- 4.4.1.The idea -- 4.4.2.Integration -- 4.4.3.F-Projection Rules revisited -- 4.4.4.Bottom up and top down -- 4.4.5.Competition-based analyses of focus projection -- 4.5.Lesser studied focus configuration -- 4.5.1.Discontinuous foci and multiple foci -- 4.5.2.Multiple foci -- 4.5.3.Focus in questions -- 5.1.Givenness -- 5.1.1.Salient, not familiar -- 5.1.2.Salient, not previously mentioned loo -- 5.1.3.Salient, not presupposed loo -- 5.2.Focussing -- 5.2.1.No truth conditions for focussing -- 5.2.2.Focus-mentalism -- 5.3.Contrast -- 5.3.1.Deaccenting requires local contrast 1o -- 5.3.2.Wagner (2012b) -- 5.3.3.On the notion of contrast -- 5.3.4.Where and when is focus contrastive? -- 5.4.Open ends in Alternative Semantics -- 5.4.1.Focus on semantic functions -- 5.4.2.Givenness distributivity -- 5.4.3.Focus/background compared to new/given once more -- 5.4.4.The role of context and world knowledge -- 5.5.Chapter summary and outlook -- 6.1.Introducing prosodic structure -- 6.1.1.Metrical structure: prosodic constituents, heads, and stress -- 6.1.2.Stress and accent -- 6.1.3.Intonational structure -- 6.1.4.Phrasal prosody -- 6.2.Building prosodic structure: phrasal stress and integration -- 6.2.1.Phrasal stress: WRAP-XP and STRESS-XP -- 6.2.2.Integration -- 6.2.3.Non-integration -- 6.2.4.Function words and integration -- 6.2.5.IP-HEAD-RIGHT -- 6.2.6.Appendix: alternative approaches to the syntax-prosody mapping -- 6.3.Towards more complex stress (and accent) patterns -- 6.3.1.Additional levels of phrasing above the intermediate phrase -- 6.3.2.Left-branching sub-constituents -- 6.3.3.Left-branching and stress equalization -- 6.3.4.Excursus: free recursion? -- 6.3.5.Right-branching structures -- 7.1.Focus -- 7.1.1.How to reassign sentential stress: head misalignment vs de-phrasing -- 7.1.2.Accent assignment within the focus -- 7.1.3.Focus REALIZATION effects below the iP-level -- 7.1.4.iP-heads and focus 17o -- 7.1.5.Pre-nuclear accent shift -- 7.2.Givenness -- 7.2.1.Nuclear deaccenting -- 7.2.2.Pre-nuclear deaccenting -- 7.3.Second occurrence focus -- 7.3.1.The basic generalization and how to derive it -- 7.3.2.Further aspects of second occurrence focus -- 7.3.3.Open questions -- 7.3.4.Outlook i -- 7.4.Summary -- 8.1.Italian: two focus types and no givenness -- 8.1.1.Clause-final focus only -- 8.1.2.Lack of givenness accenting -- 8.1.3.Clause-initial (and clause-medial) focus -- 8.2.Hungarian -- 8.3.Outlook: focus, sentential stress, and verb adjacency -- 8.4.A note on Nuclear Stress Rules -- 8.5.Integration revisited -- 8.5.1.Some more cases of non-integration -- 8.5.2.Intransitive subject integration -- 8.5.3.Special cases of object integration -- 9.1.Intonational morphemes and text-to-tune alignment -- 9.2.Boundary tones -- 9.2.1.Rising vs falling declaratives -- 9.2.2.Phrase tone meanings -- 9.2.3.Boundary tone meanings -- 9.2.4.Interim summary: phrase and boundary tone meanings -- 9.3.Accent tone(s) -- 9.3.1.Paradigmatic accent tone choice -- 9.3.2.Accent alignment in German -- 9.3.3.Paradigmatic accent choice in German -- 9.3.4.Another interim summary -- 9.4.Theme/topic vs rheme/focus accents -- 9.4.1.A brief natural history of contrastive topics -- 9.4.2.Single CT and F+CT -- 9.4.3.Representation and interpretation of CT -- 9.4.4.Realization of CT -- 9.5.Chapter summary 26o -- 10.1.Focus Sensitive Elements -- 10.2.Probing focus size with Focus Sensitive Elements -- 10.2.1.Detecting maximal focus size: <also> -- 10.2.2.Detecting minimal focus size: <only> -- 10.3.FSE and pseudo-FSEs -- 10.3.1.Strong, weak, and intermediate theories of AwF -- 10.3.2.On strong theories -- 10.3.3.Focus sensitivity vs context sensitivity -- 10.3.4.Other instances of (apparent) focus sensitivity -- 10.4.Odds and ends about FSEs -- 10.4.1.Presupposition and assertion -- 10.4.2.Scope and domain of FSEs -- 10.4.3.Binding into focus (alternatives) -- 10.5.Indexed foci -- 10.5.1.Nested foci -- 10.5.2.Formal intermezzo: a semantics for indexed foci -- 10.5.3.Tanglewood -- 10.5.4.Are foci ever "absorbed"?.
- Summary
- This volume examines the interplay between prosody - stress, phrasing and melody - and interpretation - felicity in discourse, inferences and emphasis. It presents the main phenomena involved and introduces current formal analyses of prosodic structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational meaning and the relations between them.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191826603 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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