Recursivity and Focus in the Prosody of Xitsonga DPs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5901032
AutoresJ Lee (0000-0002-7047-9315), Seunghun J Lee (0000-0001-5634-5583, International Christian University, autor de correspondencia), Kristina Riedel (0000-0002-2809-0066, University of the Free State)
Año2023
Volumen8
Número2
Páginas150
Fecha de publicación2023-06-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages8020150
OpenAlexW4380087049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

This paper explores the prosodic patterns of complex DP structures in Xitsonga by looking at penultimate lengthening in DPs with marked and unmarked word orders of different types. We discuss the underlying syntactic structures and prosodic realizations of Xitsonga DPs. We are particularly interested in the way in which recursion applies in the Xitsonga DP, where it surfaces in DPs with multiple modifiers of the same or different categories that appear in fronted (i.e., pre-nominal) positions. We propose that in Xitsonga nominal constituents move to a left-periphery-like position within the DP domain and that this position matches to a focus-marked phonological phrase. This type of phonological phrase is forced to remain in the phonology even if the one-word phrase violates the Binarity constraint. We argue that the penultimate lengthening effects found in Xitsonga with the reordering of DP internal elements are best analyzed as showing sensitivity to this focus-marked phonological phrase

Algorithm · Constraint (computer-aided design · Domain (mathematical analysis · Focus (optics · Geometry · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phonology · Phrase · Physics · Prosody · Recursion (computer science · Speech recognition · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence