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An information structure view on Romance yes-no question contours

dc.creatorJitca, Doina
dc.date2023-01-24
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-18T12:31:49Z
dc.date.available2023-10-18T12:31:49Z
dc.identifierhttps://onomazein.letras.uc.cl/index.php/onom/article/view/57875
dc.identifier10.7764/onomazein.ne11.06
dc.identifier.urihttps://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/237493
dc.descriptionThe paper presents an information structure (IS) analysis of YNQ contours of nine Romance languages from a psycholinguistic perspective. The contours are presented in Frota & Prieto (2015). The psychological IS model defines four IS categories for describing IS partitions of information units and rules for the nuclear stress identification. Information units are contrast units (CUs) generated by the speech production mechanism at the cortex level in order to pair words/word groups within speech data flow. The contrast is an IS functional one at the information packaging level and is conveyed at the prosodic level by contrasted tonal features of IS functional elements. CU_predicate-CU_argument and CU_theme-CU_rheme are the two structural dimensions of IS partitions. The model formulates two IS-based nuclear stress rules that we have used in Romance YNQ contour analysis in order to identify nucleus (focus) of IS partitions that is an important factor to discriminate between different contour types: information seeking YNQ, confirmation seeking YNQ, or echo YNQ within the nine Romance languages.en-US
dc.descriptionThe paper presents an information structure (IS) analysis of YNQ contours of nine Romance languages from a psycholinguistic perspective. The contours are presented in Frota & Prieto (2015). The psychological IS model defines four IS categories for describing IS partitions of information units and rules for the nuclear stress identification. Information units are contrast units (CUs) generated by the speech production mechanism at the cortex level in order to pair words/word groups within speech data flow. The contrast is an IS functional one at the information packaging level and is conveyed at the prosodic level by contrasted tonal features of IS functional elements. CU_predicate-CU_argument and CU_theme-CU_rheme are the two structural dimensions of IS partitions. The model formulates two IS-based nuclear stress rules that we have used in Romance YNQ contour analysis in order to identify nucleus (focus) of IS partitions that is an important factor to discriminate between different contour types: information seeking YNQ, confirmation seeking YNQ, or echo YNQ within the nine Romance languages.es-ES
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dc.languagespa
dc.publisherFacultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chilees-ES
dc.relationhttps://onomazein.letras.uc.cl/index.php/onom/article/view/57875/47103
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0es-ES
dc.sourceOnomázein ; Número especial XI: Aproximaciones actuales a la entonación en rumano y español; 151-172es-ES
dc.sourceOnomázein ; Special Issue XI: Current Approaches to Romanian and Spanish Intonation; 151-172en-US
dc.source0718-5758
dc.subjectinformation structurees-ES
dc.subjectnuclear constituentes-ES
dc.subjectpsycholinguistic IS modeles-ES
dc.subjectinformation structureen-US
dc.subjectnuclear constituenten-US
dc.subjectpsycholinguistic IS modelen-US
dc.titleAn information structure view on Romance yes-no question contoursen-US
dc.titleAn information structure view on Romance yes-no question contourses-ES
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