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| Titel: |
Focus in Relative Clause Construal |
| Auteur: |
Schafer, Amy |
| Verschenen in: |
Language & cognitive processes |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 11 (1996) nr. 1-2 pagina's 135-164 |
| Jaar: |
1996-04-01 |
| Inhoud: |
Two auditory comprehension studies investigated the role of focus, as conveyed by a pitch accent, in the comprehension ofrelativeclauses preceded by a complex NP (e.g. the propeller of the plane that . ..). In the first experiment, accenting N1 (propeller) or N2 (plane) increased the probability that the accented NP would be taken as head of the relative clause. This supported the predictions of a Focus Attraction Hypothesis as applied to relative clauses. The second experiment manipulated the prosodic status of the relative clause (accented or unaccented) as well as the type of accent on a potential head of the relative clause. It demonstrated that focus on a potential head of a relative clause attracts both accented relative clauses, presumed to convey new information, and unaccented relative clauses, presumed to convey given information. This supported a straight forward version of the Focus Attraction Hypothesis as opposed to a Congruence Hypothesis, which claims that only modifiers marked as conveying new information preferentially are related to other phrases thataremarkedas new. The experiment also demonstrated that a contrastive accent on a potential head of a relative clause attracts relative clauses even more than a focal accent that is appropriate for new information. |
| Uitgever: |
Psychology Press |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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