29.2862, Books: Prosody and processing of wh-in-situ questions in standard Persian: Shiamizadeh

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:13:28
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Prosody and processing of wh-in-situ questions in standard Persian: Shiamizadeh

 


Title: Prosody and processing of wh-in-situ questions in standard
Persian 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/prosody-and-processing-of-wh-in-situ-questions-in-standard-persian 


Author: Zohreh Shiamizadeh

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932793 Pages: 131 Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

The syntactic literature offers different question types, one of which is the
wh-question. There are languages, including Persian, in which the wh-phrase is
not required to move to sentence-initial position in order to form a
wh-question. It has been shown that prosody contributes to the production and
perception of the contrast between declarativity and interrogativity, notably
in interrogative utterances lacking lexico-syntactic features of
interrogativity. Accordingly, it may be proposed that prosody plays a role in
encoding and decoding wh-in-situ questions in which the interrogativity
feature (the wh-phrase) does not move to sentence-initial position, as, for
example, in Persian. The role of prosodic correlates in marking different
parts of wh-in-situ questions as opposed to declaratives is, however, an
understudied research area in Persian prosody. Further understudied topics
include the role of prosodic correlates in the identification of wh-in-situ
questions before the occurrence of the wh-phrase. This dissertation focuses on
a series of experiments on the production and perception of wh-in-situ
questions in standard Persian.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Persian, Iranian (pes)


Written In: English  (eng)

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