terminology: syntactic accent

[Sebastian Drude]

Dear colleagues,


I am sorry that I had and have no time to get into the very interesting
debate about participles, the passive and valency.

Nevertheless, may I seek for help with respect to another topic?
Recently I was confronted several times with the fact that the term
"syntactic accent" is not generally known or used, and usually is not
even intuitively understood by other linguists.  So I understand that
this is not a traditional term that the Integrational Theory
reconstructs?  Or was it introduced and used only or mainly by Bolinger,
and that approach did not make it in general textbooks or linguistic
dictionaries?  Does the same hold for German ""Satzakzent"?

Anyway, my pragmatic question is: When I want to say "syntactic accent"
in a general paper not directed to an IL audience, which more widespread
term would you recommend me to use; what is closest to the IL conception?
I most often find "Sentence Stress", but find it misleading...
What about "sentence accent"?

Thank you in advance for your help, and best wishes from Belém,

Sebastian (Drude)


References:
Bolinger, Dwight L., 1958. "A theory of pitch accent in English".
Word 14: 109-149.

Lieb, Hans-Heinrich, 1984a. "A method for the semantic study of
syntactic accents". In: Dafydd Gibbon, and Helmut Richter (eds).
Intonation, accent and rhythm: Studies in discourse phonology. Berlin;
New York: de Gruyter. 267–282.

In Lieb 1983b, there is a reference as "forthcoming b":
"Accent and meaning. A study of syntactic accents, stress, and rythm,
with special reference to German"
I cannot find this in the IL-Bibliography, is there a possibility to
read the manuscript?


PS: For instance, I am writing a paper about the Awetí Orthography, and
there I explain very shortly (rough translation from Portuguese to English):

"By lexical accent we understand here the saliency of a syllable in a
phonological word, indicating its capacity to carry a syntactic accent
(such as a contrastive accent)."  or: "... that a syntactic accents
manifests itself on that syllable (...).".

[[Por acento tônico, entendemos, aqui, a saliência de uma sílaba dentro
de uma palavra fonológica, indicando sua capacidade de nela se
manifestar um acento sintático (como um acento contrastivo).]]

All readers would criticize or make a comment of lack of understanding
on "syntactic accent", and this has happened in other occasions before.


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