Syntactic and Prosodic Contrastive Focus Marking in K'ichee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4561186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brandon O Baird, Brandon Baird (0000-0003-0234-6438, Middlebury College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 295-325 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/697585 |
| OpenAlex | W2811025188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
The present study analyses the syntax and prosody of contrastive focus in K'ichee' according to the bilingual language dominance of the speakers. Results of a production task reveal that although speakers use all of the syntactic constructions mentioned in the literature, speakers that are less dominant in K'ichee' use in situ constructions at a higher rate. The results of the acoustic analysis show that, in contrast to work on other Mayan languages, a focused constituent does not need to be moved to the preverbal, left-peripheral position in order to be prosodically prominent in K'ichee'. Furthermore, although all speakers prosodically mark a constituent for contrastive focus regardless of language dominance, the effects of language dominance on prosodic focus marking are gradient: speakers that are less dominant in K'ichee' are more likely to mark contrastive focus to a greater prosodic degree than those that are more dominant in K'ichee
Contrastive analysis · Dominance (genetics · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Physics · Prosody · Syntax · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.71 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |