TY  - INPR
A1  - Baumann, Stefan
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - Prosody and information status in typological perspective - Introduction to the Special Issue
T2  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.08.001
SN  - 0024-3841
SN  - 1872-6135
VL  - 165
SP  - 179
EP  - 182
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Verhoeven, Elisabeth
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - Accentual preferences and predictability: An acceptability study on split intransitivity in German
JF  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
N2  - The difference in the default prosodic realization of simple sentences with unergative vs. unaccusative/passive verbs (assigning early nuclear accent with unaccusative/passive verbs but late nuclear accent with unergative verbs) is often related to the syntactic distinction of their nominative arguments as starting off in different hierarchical positions. Alternative accounts try to trace this prosodic variation back to asymmetries in the semantic or pragmatic contribution of the verb to an utterance. The present article investigates the interaction of the assignment of default nuclear accent with the predictability of the verb. In an experimental study testing the acceptability of nuclear accent assignment, we confirmed that the predictability of the verb influences accentual preferences (such that highly predictable verbs are preferably not accented). However, the experiment also reveals that the unaccusativity distinction cannot be accounted for by means of pragmatic phenomena of this type: the two verb classes are associated with distinct accentual patterns in the baseline condition, that is, without the predictability manipulation. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Nuclear accent
KW  - Prosodic phrasing
KW  - Unaccusativity
KW  - Unergative verbs
KW  - Predictability
KW  - Information structure
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.09.013
SN  - 0024-3841
SN  - 1872-6135
VL  - 165
SP  - 298
EP  - 315
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -