Unstressed versus stressed German additive auch – what determines a speaker’s choice?
Abstract: The German additive particle auch associates with a constituent (the associated constituent, AC) which is related to contextually relevant discourse alternative (s). There are two versions of auch in German: a stressed and an unstressed version. Although in most of the cases, speakers have the choice of using the unstressed or stressed version, there are clear preferences for using one version over the other. It is the aim of the present paper to contribute to a clearer picture concerning factors constraining speakers’ preferences. By integrating another focus particle (nur, ‘only’) in the context, we ask whether syntactic (nur precedes its AC) and information structural properties (the AC being a focus) of a context sentence influence the choice of a speaker, or whether speakers apply default mappings (subjects as prototypical topics). The results of a sentence fragment arrangement task indicate that speakers strongly rely on default mechanisms, but that they are also influenced by syntactic and information structural properties of the context to some extent.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Unstressed versus stressed German additive auch – what determines a speaker’s choice? ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; pages:177-184 ; extent:08
Linguistics vanguard ; 8, Heft 1 (2022), 177-184 (gesamt 08)
- Creator
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Reimer, Laura
Dimroth, Christine
- DOI
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10.1515/lingvan-2021-0154
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022123013111472000162
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:31 AM CEST
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- Reimer, Laura
- Dimroth, Christine
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