Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian

According to Horn's (1984) Principle of Division of Pragmatic Labor, marked forms should have marked meanings. We investigate differences in the interpretation of two prosodically distinct forms of the disjunction sau in Romanian ('A sau B'): (i) neutral rise-fall prosody, and (ii) ma...

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Autores: Bleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676, Tieu, Lyn|||0000-0003-2794-7977, Bîlbîie, Gabriela|||0000-0002-4547-1645, Panaitescu, Mara, Slăvuţeanu, Gabriela, Benz, Anton|||0000-0002-1128-6636, Nicolae, Andreea Cristina|||0000-0002-7737-5009
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.384
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Palavra-chave:Romanian
First language
Disjunction
Markedness
Prosody
Experimental linguistics
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spelling Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in RomanianBleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676Tieu, Lyn|||0000-0003-2794-7977Bîlbîie, Gabriela|||0000-0002-4547-1645Panaitescu, MaraSlăvuţeanu, GabrielaBenz, Anton|||0000-0002-1128-6636Nicolae, Andreea Cristina|||0000-0002-7737-5009RomanianFirst languageDisjunctionMarkednessProsodyExperimental linguisticsAccording to Horn's (1984) Principle of Division of Pragmatic Labor, marked forms should have marked meanings. We investigate differences in the interpretation of two prosodically distinct forms of the disjunction sau in Romanian ('A sau B'): (i) neutral rise-fall prosody, and (ii) marked rise-fall-rise prosody, where both disjuncts are stressed. Adults typically interpret disjunction inclusively (A or B, possibly both) or exclusively (A or B, but not both), while children interpret it inclusively or conjunctively (A and B), cf. Singh et al. (2016) and Tieu et al. (2017). We ask whether similar preferences hold for Romanian and probe into the understudied role of prosody. Given adults' greater sensitivity to prosody compared to children (Gotzner et al. 2013), we predict they might associate marked sau with the marked exclusive meaning more than children do. We tested Romanian-speaking adults and 5-year-olds using a forced-choice task, in which two puppets made guesses about what would happen, using either neutral sau or marked sau. While adults preferred neutral sau to describe contexts in which both disjuncts were true and marked sau for contexts in which only one disjunct was true, children selected the two disjunctions indiscriminately. We conclude that, unlike adults, children do not distinguish between prosodically marked and unmarked forms of disjunction. 22024-01-0120242024-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/294951https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.384reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2949512026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
title Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
spellingShingle Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
Bleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676
Romanian
First language
Disjunction
Markedness
Prosody
Experimental linguistics
title_short Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
title_full Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
title_fullStr Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
title_sort Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676
Tieu, Lyn|||0000-0003-2794-7977
Bîlbîie, Gabriela|||0000-0002-4547-1645
Panaitescu, Mara
Slăvuţeanu, Gabriela
Benz, Anton|||0000-0002-1128-6636
Nicolae, Andreea Cristina|||0000-0002-7737-5009
author Bleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676
author_facet Bleotu, Adina Camelia|||0000-0002-5838-2676
Tieu, Lyn|||0000-0003-2794-7977
Bîlbîie, Gabriela|||0000-0002-4547-1645
Panaitescu, Mara
Slăvuţeanu, Gabriela
Benz, Anton|||0000-0002-1128-6636
Nicolae, Andreea Cristina|||0000-0002-7737-5009
author_role author
author2 Tieu, Lyn|||0000-0003-2794-7977
Bîlbîie, Gabriela|||0000-0002-4547-1645
Panaitescu, Mara
Slăvuţeanu, Gabriela
Benz, Anton|||0000-0002-1128-6636
Nicolae, Andreea Cristina|||0000-0002-7737-5009
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Romanian
First language
Disjunction
Markedness
Prosody
Experimental linguistics
topic Romanian
First language
Disjunction
Markedness
Prosody
Experimental linguistics
description According to Horn's (1984) Principle of Division of Pragmatic Labor, marked forms should have marked meanings. We investigate differences in the interpretation of two prosodically distinct forms of the disjunction sau in Romanian ('A sau B'): (i) neutral rise-fall prosody, and (ii) marked rise-fall-rise prosody, where both disjuncts are stressed. Adults typically interpret disjunction inclusively (A or B, possibly both) or exclusively (A or B, but not both), while children interpret it inclusively or conjunctively (A and B), cf. Singh et al. (2016) and Tieu et al. (2017). We ask whether similar preferences hold for Romanian and probe into the understudied role of prosody. Given adults' greater sensitivity to prosody compared to children (Gotzner et al. 2013), we predict they might associate marked sau with the marked exclusive meaning more than children do. We tested Romanian-speaking adults and 5-year-olds using a forced-choice task, in which two puppets made guesses about what would happen, using either neutral sau or marked sau. While adults preferred neutral sau to describe contexts in which both disjuncts were true and marked sau for contexts in which only one disjunct was true, children selected the two disjunctions indiscriminately. We conclude that, unlike adults, children do not distinguish between prosodically marked and unmarked forms of disjunction.
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