Dear colleagues,
we are very happy to announce the:
Roundtable on Hungarian prosody – 20.01.2021 15:00 CET via Zoom.
Please register beforehand (Kuegler@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data to zoom!
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Time (CET) |
Speaker |
Title |
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15.00 |
Frank Kügler |
Welcome address |
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15.10 |
Corinna Langer |
‚A short review on Hungarian Prosody‘ |
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15.30 |
Adam Szalontai |
‘Effects of focus on post-verbal word order and prosody in Hungarian’ |
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16.00 |
Corinna Langer |
‘On the prosody of different scopes of the Hungarian additive particle is ‚also’’ |
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16.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.40 |
Louise Mycock |
‘Scope Marking in Hungarian: intonation, syntax, and semantics’ |
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17.10 |
Frank Kügler & Corinna Langer |
‘On accentuation in Hungarian NPs’ |
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17.40 |
Discussion |
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18.00 |
Get together |
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| *cancelled | Katalin Mády, Beáta Gyuris, Uwe Reichel, Ádám Szalontai |
‘The prosody of wh-interrogatives and their alternative functions’ |
Abstract Szalontai:
Effects of focus on post-verbal word order and prosody in Hungarian
Hungarian is well known for indicating exhaustive focus by way of word order variation in its pre-verbal domain, where word order is strictly associated with information structural roles. It has been argued that Hungarian allows for post-verbal focus if that focus is non-exhaustive, further more word order in this domain is much less constricted than it is pre-verbally. In this talk I will present the findings of a series of experiments aimed at mapping the effects of post-verbal focus on world order and prosody. The findings indicate that there is a clear preference to place focused items in the immediately post-verbal position as opposed to the clause final position, however if focus occurs in this position then it is marked prosodically.
Abstract and slides Mycock:
Link to slides: Scope Marking in Hungarian: intonation, syntax and semantics
Scope Marking in Hungarian: intonation, syntax, and semantics
Link to Abstract: MYCOCK – Scope Marking in Hungarian
Abstract and slides Kügler & Langer:
Link to slides: On accentuation patterns in Hungarian NPs — with an outlook on Finno-Ugric languages
On accentuation patterns in Hungarian NPs — with an outlook on Finno-Ugric languages
Hungarian is a discourse-configurational language with a designated pre-verbal focus position. Prosodically, the sentence accent is realised on the leftmost element in the phrase. In case of focus, sentence accent is realised on the focused constituent, which appears pre-verbally. If a complex NP is focused, the whole NP appears in the pre-verbal focus position, even if only parts of the NP are focused. This talk presents a production study to explore the distribution of pitch accents in complex focused NPs with different focus domains. As a result, in Hungarian the leftmost element of a focused NP receives the highest prominence independent of focus. Any focused element also receives prominence, though less prominent. This talk discusses the findings in a broader perspective of accent strategies and presents the design of a planned cross-linguistic study on NP accentuation strategies in the Finno-Ugric languages Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
Abstract and slides Langer:
Link to slides: A short review on Hungarian Prosody
Link to slides: On the prosody of different scopes of the Hungarian additive particle is ‚also‘
On the prosody of different scopes of the Hungarian additive particle is ‚also‘
The immediate pre-verbal focus position in Hungarian is typically associated with exhaustivity. Thus, elements such as the focus sensitive additive particle is ‚also‘, which mark a type of focus that is not exhaustive, cannot occur in this position. In this talk, I will present findings from a (corpus based) case study on the usage of the additive particle and the prosodic realisation of is-marked foci depending on the scope of the focus. The results show differences in the marking of narrow focus (on one constituent) and broad focus (predicate or sentence focus) in that the is-marked constituent is always accented and the (de)accentuation of the following elements indicates the scope of the focus. I will also present the design of an experiment that is planned to test these findings in a more controlled environment.