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Prominence in Hungarian: the prosody-syntax connection

2010; Wiley; Volume: 108; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-968x.2010.01241.x

1467-968X

Louise Mycock,

Natural Language Processing Techniques

Transactions of the Philological SocietyVolume 108, Issue 3 p. 265-297 Prominence in Hungarian: the prosody–syntax connection Louise Mycock, Louise Mycock University of OxfordSearch for more papers by this author Louise Mycock, Louise Mycock University of OxfordSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01241.xCitations: 9 University of OxfordCentre for Linguistics and PhilologyWalton StreetOxford OX1 2HGEmail: [email protected] Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract An element can be emphasised by occupying a specific syntactic position or by bearing an appropriate intonational contour. Determining how these two types of prominence signalling and the information they encode are related raises a number of important issues concerning the interaction of syntax, prosody and meaning. A language such as Hungarian, in which discourse functions and different kinds of semantic operator are associated with certain syntactic positions, provides data that enable the connection between prosody, syntax, information structure and semantics to be investigated. Analysis of elicited spoken data reveals that (i) syntactic focus and prosodic prominence do not always align in Hungarian, and (ii) the location of prosodic prominence is determined by semantics, specifically scope, but relative scope is not computed on the basis of prosody alone. 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