An Intonational Study of Focus and Word Order Variation in Mexican Spanish Sahyang
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چکیده
1. Preliminaries In general, for languages which allow a flexible order of major constituents, the grammatical variations of simple sentences are truth-conditionally equivalent regardless of the constituent sequences and of the intonational patterns. In Spanish, for instance, the six logically possible variations of sentences containing three constituents, namely, subject, verb, and object are felicitous in the context of a broad question such as Qué pasó? What happened?. Nonetheless, each variation may differ in the pragmatic information it conveys. A canonical order gives general information of the event and the participants as in sentence (1b).
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