Fatima Hamlaoui
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatima Hamlaoui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatima |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamlaoui |
| SIGNATURE | HAMLAOUI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3603-9794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French
This paper examines the production of vocative calls in (Northern) Metropolitan French (MF) and Cameroonian French (CF) as it is spoken by native speakers of a tone language, Basaá. While the results of our Discourse Completion Task confirm previous descriptions of MF, they also further our understanding of the relationship between pragmatics and prosody across different groups of French speakers. MF favors the vocative chant in routine contexts …
Acoustic Correlates of Focus Marking in Czech and Polish
Languages vary in the type of contexts that affect prosodic prominence. This paper reports on a production study investigating how different types of foci influence prosody in Polish and Czech noun phrases. The results show that in both languages, focus and givenness are marked prosodically, with pitch and intensity as the main acoustic correlates. Like Germanic languages, Polish and Czech patterns show prosodic focus marking in a broad range of …
From #[Je]F suis Charlie to #JeSuisCharlie: On the semantics and information structure of a French empathic copular sentence
Je suis Charlie was used over 619.000 times in the two days that have followed the attack of Charlie Hebdo and has regularly been taken up in both written and spoken forms since. A number of variants of this meme (i.e. Nous sommes tous (des) Charlie ) have also emerged among French speakers. We argue that this is primarily related to the fact that the structure of Je suis Charlie actually clashes with its meaning. Whereas its word order and defau…
A flexible approach to the mapping of intonational phrases
We propose that for the syntax–prosody mapping of clauses and intonational phrases, the notion of ‘clause’ should be determined in a flexible manner, making reference to the highest position to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary or a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. This contrasts with rigid approaches, which assume that mapping is based on par…
Je suis Charlie: Semantic and prosodic anatomy of an empathic copular sentence
"Je suis Charlie" was used over 619.000 times in the two days that have followed the attack of the editorial team of Charlie Hebdo (Le Progrès, The Huffington Post) and has regularly been taken up in both written and spoken form since. In this paper, we argue that the structure of this sentence actually clashes with its meaning. More specifically, whereas its word order and default rightmost sentence stress are compatible either with an all-focus…
Focus marking and the unavailability of inversion structures in the Bantu language Bàsàá (A43)
Syntactic and prosodic aspects of left and right dislocation in Embɔsi (Bantu C25)
This paper deals with left and right dislocation in Embɔsi, a Bantu language (C25) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. The prosody of dislocation has gathered considerable attention, as it is particularly informative for the theories of the syntax-prosody mapping of Intonation Phrases (a.o. Selkirk, 2009, 2011; Downing, 2011). Concentrating on selected Bantu languages, Downing (2011) identifies two main phrasing patterns. She primarily distinguishes lan…
Note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages
In the present paper, we concentrate on (selected) Bantu and Nilotic bare-passive strategies and lay out the basis for a typology of transitive passive constructions in these languages. We argue that bare-passives constitute an optimal strategy to change prominence relations between arguments, in languages that strongly hold to the default mapping between the highest thematic role available and the grammatical subject (i.e. Spec,TP). The Nilotic …
Bàsàa wh-questions and prosodic structuring
We show that wh-words are a tool to investigate the prosodic structure of Bàsàa. Our claim is that the end of an Intonation Phrase (IP) can be identified by the presence of a long vowel on the wh-word. We propose that wh-words, which sometimes surface as C ́V and sometimes as C ́V ́V, are underlyingly of the C ́V form and they introduce a floating H. Whenever the association of this floating H with the first tone bearing unit that follows the wh-…
Questions partielles en ɛmbɔ́sí (C25)
L'article étudie les diverses façons de poser des questions partielles en Embosi (C25). D'une part, la langue possède deux ensembles de pronoms/déterminants interrogatifs: 1) nda/nde, nda renvoyant aux animés et nde aux non-animés, 2) des mots interrogatifs en accord de classe avec le nom qu'ils déterminent ou qu'ils remplacent, segmentalement homophones des démonstratifs. Ces deux catégories de marqueurs appellent des réponses de nature différen…
Anti-givenness, prosodic structure and “intervention effects”
Based on data from French, Japanese and Korean, this article lays out an approach to wh-questions' intervention effects that questions the very existence of this phenomenon. It is assumed that the property that makes all the "interveners" into one natural class is their anti-given nature. Taking into account wh-questions' syntax, phonology and information structure, it is shown that although the three investigated languages vary with respect to w…
On the role of phonology and discourse in Francilian French wh -questions
It is argued that in Francilian French, the dialect of French spoken in the Paris metropolitan area, in-situ and fronted wh -questions have the same answerhood conditions but vary with respect to their respective focus-set (Reinhart 2006). The difference between the two types of questions lies in the discourse status of their non- wh portion. Whereas the wh -phrase is never discourse-given, the non- wh portion may or may not be, depending on the …
On the role of phonology and discourse in Francilian French wh -questions
It is argued that in Francilian French, the dialect of French spoken in the Paris metropolitan area, in-situ and fronted wh -questions have the same answerhood conditions but vary with respect to their respective focus-set (Reinhart 2006). The difference between the two types of questions lies in the discourse status of their non- wh portion. Whereas the wh -phrase is never discourse-given, the non- wh portion may or may not be, depending on the …
Focus marking and the unavailability of inversion structures in the Bantu language Bàsàá (A43)
Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French
This paper examines the production of vocative calls in (Northern) Metropolitan French (MF) and Cameroonian French (CF) as it is spoken by native speakers of a tone language, Basaá. While the results of our Discourse Completion Task confirm previous descriptions of MF, they also further our understanding of the relationship between pragmatics and prosody across different groups of French speakers. MF favors the vocative chant in routine contexts …
Anti-givenness, prosodic structure and “intervention effects”
Based on data from French, Japanese and Korean, this article lays out an approach to wh-questions' intervention effects that questions the very existence of this phenomenon. It is assumed that the property that makes all the "interveners" into one natural class is their anti-given nature. Taking into account wh-questions' syntax, phonology and information structure, it is shown that although the three investigated languages vary with respect to w…
On the role of phonology and discourse in Francilian French wh -questions
It is argued that in Francilian French, the dialect of French spoken in the Paris metropolitan area, in-situ and fronted wh -questions have the same answerhood conditions but vary with respect to their respective focus-set (Reinhart 2006). The difference between the two types of questions lies in the discourse status of their non- wh portion. Whereas the wh -phrase is never discourse-given, the non- wh portion may or may not be, depending on the …
Bàsàa wh-questions and prosodic structuring
We show that wh-words are a tool to investigate the prosodic structure of Bàsàa. Our claim is that the end of an Intonation Phrase (IP) can be identified by the presence of a long vowel on the wh-word. We propose that wh-words, which sometimes surface as C ́V and sometimes as C ́V ́V, are underlyingly of the C ́V form and they introduce a floating H. Whenever the association of this floating H with the first tone bearing unit that follows the wh-…
Questions partielles en ɛmbɔ́sí (C25)
L'article étudie les diverses façons de poser des questions partielles en Embosi (C25). D'une part, la langue possède deux ensembles de pronoms/déterminants interrogatifs: 1) nda/nde, nda renvoyant aux animés et nde aux non-animés, 2) des mots interrogatifs en accord de classe avec le nom qu'ils déterminent ou qu'ils remplacent, segmentalement homophones des démonstratifs. Ces deux catégories de marqueurs appellent des réponses de nature différen…
Syntactic and prosodic aspects of left and right dislocation in Embɔsi (Bantu C25)
This paper deals with left and right dislocation in Embɔsi, a Bantu language (C25) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. The prosody of dislocation has gathered considerable attention, as it is particularly informative for the theories of the syntax-prosody mapping of Intonation Phrases (a.o. Selkirk, 2009, 2011; Downing, 2011). Concentrating on selected Bantu languages, Downing (2011) identifies two main phrasing patterns. She primarily distinguishes lan…
Note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages
In the present paper, we concentrate on (selected) Bantu and Nilotic bare-passive strategies and lay out the basis for a typology of transitive passive constructions in these languages. We argue that bare-passives constitute an optimal strategy to change prominence relations between arguments, in languages that strongly hold to the default mapping between the highest thematic role available and the grammatical subject (i.e. Spec,TP). The Nilotic …
A flexible approach to the mapping of intonational phrases
We propose that for the syntax–prosody mapping of clauses and intonational phrases, the notion of ‘clause’ should be determined in a flexible manner, making reference to the highest position to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary or a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. This contrasts with rigid approaches, which assume that mapping is based on par…
Je suis Charlie: Semantic and prosodic anatomy of an empathic copular sentence
"Je suis Charlie" was used over 619.000 times in the two days that have followed the attack of the editorial team of Charlie Hebdo (Le Progrès, The Huffington Post) and has regularly been taken up in both written and spoken form since. In this paper, we argue that the structure of this sentence actually clashes with its meaning. More specifically, whereas its word order and default rightmost sentence stress are compatible either with an all-focus…
Focus marking and the unavailability of inversion structures in the Bantu language Bàsàá (A43)
From #[Je]F suis Charlie to #JeSuisCharlie: On the semantics and information structure of a French empathic copular sentence
Je suis Charlie was used over 619.000 times in the two days that have followed the attack of Charlie Hebdo and has regularly been taken up in both written and spoken forms since. A number of variants of this meme (i.e. Nous sommes tous (des) Charlie ) have also emerged among French speakers. We argue that this is primarily related to the fact that the structure of Je suis Charlie actually clashes with its meaning. Whereas its word order and defau…
Acoustic Correlates of Focus Marking in Czech and Polish
Languages vary in the type of contexts that affect prosodic prominence. This paper reports on a production study investigating how different types of foci influence prosody in Polish and Czech noun phrases. The results show that in both languages, focus and givenness are marked prosodically, with pitch and intensity as the main acoustic correlates. Like Germanic languages, Polish and Czech patterns show prosodic focus marking in a broad range of …
Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French
This paper examines the production of vocative calls in (Northern) Metropolitan French (MF) and Cameroonian French (CF) as it is spoken by native speakers of a tone language, Basaá. While the results of our Discourse Completion Task confirm previous descriptions of MF, they also further our understanding of the relationship between pragmatics and prosody across different groups of French speakers. MF favors the vocative chant in routine contexts …
Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)