Focus-feature and wh-feature in the light of pied piping behavior in Hungarian by Júlia Keresztes

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Mapping focus to prosody in Italian by Giuliano Bocci, Valentina Bianchi, Silvio Cruschina

“…Based on evidence from production, in previous work we argue that the NPA assignment is a reflex of the cyclic syntactic derivation, being sensitive to a syntactic [focus] feature borne by the wh-phrase. The striking dissociation between the NPA and focal interpretation that emerges from the production data raises the question of whether Italian hearers are sensitive to this marked prosodic pattern in understanding a question. …”
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