Acoustic correlates of Givenness in Icelandic
Revisiting the Radical Deaccentuation hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Güliz Güneş (0000-0002-2696-9261, University of Tübingen), Nicole Dehé (0000-0002-2952-8592, University of Konstanz) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/glossa.16436 |
| OpenAlex | W4404103927 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This paper discusses whether there is a direct link between GIVENness-related deaccentuation and ellipsis. The idea that ellipsis can only target already-deaccented material with “distinguished low-flat intonation” (Chomsky & Lasnik 1993: 564) is known as the Radical Deaccentuation (RD) account (see e.g. Tancredi 1992). Icelandic represents a challenge for RD, as it permits (clausal) ellipsis (Wood et al. 2016, 2020) yet does not seem to display deaccentuation (Nolan & Jónsdóttir 2001, Dehé 2009). We conducted a prosodic production experiment to investigate the acoustic correlates of post-focal GIVENness in pre-elliptic clauses in Icelandic to determine if Icelandic undermines the RD theory. We found that Icelandic exhibits prosodic attenuation in pre-elliptic clauses, such that pitch accents of given items are realized, yet they exhibit lower overall F0, and shorter duration. We also found a difference in prosodic constituency between all-new and pre-elliptic clauses, such that the given part in only the pre-elliptic condition is structur-ally integrated to the prosodic domain of the focused item. Our empirical findings are compatible with a weaker version of RD, namely one which treats ‘deaccentuation’ as a cover term for any acoustic effect related to the prosodic marking of GIVENness
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |