DOES PRAGMATIC BEAT SYNTAX? EVIDENCE FROM FOCUS ACCENT PLACEMENT IN THE SEMI-SPONTANEOUS SPEECH OF ITALIAN LEARNERS OF GERMAN

Does pragmatic beat syntax? Evidence from focus accent placement in the semi-spontaneous speech of Italian learners of German

In this paper, we investigate the prosodic marking of information structure by Italian L1 learners of German.We analyze two different contexts with non-final focus accents, i.e.narrow and broad focus contexts, mainly on sentence level while most studies discussing post-focal de-accentuation are restricted to noun phrases.For Italian learners, non-f

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