TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Verhoeven, Elisabeth
T1  - Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya
BT  - on the interplay of prosody and syntax
N2  - The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables. From the morpho-syntactic point of view, the grammar of Yucatec Maya contains morphological (topic affixes, morphological marking of out-of-focus predicates) and syntactic (designated positions) means to uniquely specify syntactic constructions for their information structure. After a descriptive overview of these phenomena, we present experimental evidence which reveals the impact of the nonavailability of prosodic alternatives on the choice of syntactic constructions in language production.
KW  - cleft constructions
KW  - lexical tone
KW  - topic affixes
KW  - verb-initial cleft constructions
KW  - verb-initial
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19469
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hellmuth, Sam
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
T1  - Information structure in linguistic theory and in speech production : validation of a Cross-Linguistic data set
N2  - The aim of this paper is to validate a dataset collected by means of production experiments which are part of the Questionnaire on Information Structure. The experiments generate a range of information structure contexts that have been observed in the literature to induce specific constructions. This paper compares the speech production results from a subset of these experiments with specific claims about the reflexes of information structure in four different languages. The results allow us to evaluate and in most cases validate the efficacy of our elicitation paradigms, to identify potentially fruitful avenues of future research, and to highlight issues involved in interpreting speech production data of this kind.
KW  - cleft constructions
KW  - clitic doubling
KW  - de-accenting
KW  - focus position
KW  - presentational constructions
KW  - scrambling
KW  - topicalization
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19450
SN  - 978-3-939469-72-8
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
SP  - 141
EP  - 186
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -