Abstract It is most often claimed that in Spanish constituents in narrow presentational or information focus appear rightmost, where they also receive main sentence stress, while shifting the stress to the focus in its canonical position is infelicitous. Some, however, claim that Spanish in fact has recourse to both strategies for making the focus prominent, and some recent quantitative work has shown support for this alternative view. The present paper contributes to this debate by experimentally testing the realization of presentational focus in Mexican Spanish using an acceptability judgment task. The results of the experiment reveal that, for these speakers, focused constituents need not be rightmost and can in fact be stressed in non-final position, contra the consensus view. These findings expand the database on focus in Spanish and indicate that theories of the prosody/syntax interface may need to be revised, especially those theories that motivate discourse-related syntactic movement based on the requirements of the prosody.

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墨西哥西班牙语的狭义表现重点：实验证据

摘要人们通常认为，在西班牙语的构成要素中，狭窄的表示或信息焦点出现在最右边，它们也承受主要的句子重音，而将重音转移到其规范位置上的重音却是微不足道的。但是，有些人声称西班牙语实际上采用了两种策略来突出重点，并且最近的一些定量研究表明支持这种替代观点。本文通过使用可接受性判断任务对墨西哥西班牙语中表达重点的实现进行实验性测试，从而为这一辩论做出了贡献。实验结果表明，对于这些发言者，关注的成分并不一定是最右边的，实际上可以在非最终立场上受到强调，这与共识观点相反。