Prosodic Parallelism, Focus, and Pitch Range

• Published in: Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences pp. 125 - 175
• Main Author: Carlson, Katy
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2002; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS; Accent Placement; Pitch Accent Placement; Object DP; Subject Context; Contrastive Focus; Affect Interpretation; Gapping Sentences; Parallelism Effects; Prosodic Properties; Parallelism Hypothesis; Subject Interpretations; Focus Structure; Lexical Parallelism; Pitch Range; Prosodic Boundaries; Object Accent; F0 Measurements; Prosodic Conditions; Object Context; Pitch Matching; Sentence Types; Subject Accent; Pitch Accent; VP Ellipsis; Subject DP
• ISBN: 9781138994751; 0415941687; 1138994758; 9780415941686
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315024172-5

In this chapter, the factors involved in prosodic parallelism effects will be explored in greater detail, in order to address some important questions: Does focus theory account for the parallelism effects found so far, by requiring parallel pitch accent placement? If not, what happens when only the pitch accents required by focus are present, instead of the fully parallel prosodies tested so far? What are the prosodic requirements of full and elided conjoined sentences? Are there prosodic properties not tested so far than can produce parallelism effects, such as pitch range? These questions will give a fuller picture of what the prosodic parallelism results found in previous chapters really mean.