The present study analyses the syntax and prosody of contrastive focus in K’ichee’ according to the bilingual language dominance of the speakers. Results of a production task reveal that although speakers use all of the syntactic constructions mentioned in the literature, speakers that are less dominant in K’ichee’ use in situ constructions at a higher rate. The results of the acoustic analysis show that, in contrast to work on other Mayan languages, a focused constituent does not need to be moved to the preverbal, left-peripheral position in order to be prosodically prominent in K’ichee’. Furthermore, although all speakers prosodically mark a constituent for contrastive focus regardless of language dominance, the effects of language dominance on prosodic focus marking are gradient: speakers that are less dominant in K’ichee’ are more likely to mark contrastive focus to a greater prosodic degree than those that are more dominant in K’ichee’.

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K'ichee'的句法和韵律对比焦点标记

本研究根据说话者的双语语言优势分析了 K'ichee 中对比焦点的句法和韵律。生产任务的结果表明，尽管说话者使用了文献中提到的所有句法结构，但在 K'ichee' 中不占优势的说话者使用原位结构的比率更高。声学分析的结果表明，与在其他玛雅语言上的工作相比，集中成分不需要移动到词前的左边缘位置，以便在 K'ichee' 中在韵律上突出。此外，尽管无论语言优势如何，所有说话者都会在韵律上标记对比焦点的成分，但语言优势对韵律焦点标记的影响是梯度的：