Word stress: rules and representations

该项目将探讨德语单词重音的机制。它从两个假设开始：第一，尽管最近有许多关于德语单词重音的理论和实证研究，但单词重音的描述和解释中的核心问题尚未得到充分解决；第二，语言规律在神经生理表征方面具有直接关联。在这些假设的基础上，我们建议对单词重音现象的本质进行神经语言学实验。主要通过一系列的脑电图实验，探讨单词的重音规律、其可能的韵律结构、作为韵律约束和/或词汇韵律表征的标记性方面、规则和不规则项目之间的关系以及重音的神经认知表征和功能。特别是，假设第二个重音是德语的默认重音模式（Wiese, 1996），我们将研究这种模式如何通过数量敏感性、边缘标记、韵律结构、词汇关联等因素进行修改，以及如何在（德语）单词重音的理论模型中捕获这些因素。

The project will explore the mechanisms underlying word stress in German. It starts from two assumptions: first that, inspite of a number of recent theoretical and empirical studies on word stress in German, central issues in the description and explanation of word stress have not been solved adequately, and second that linguistic regularities have a direct correlate in terms of neurophysiological representations. On the basis of these assumptions we propose to conduct neurolinguistic experiments on the nature of word stress phenomena. Primarily through a series of EEG experiments, the word stress regularities, their possible underlying prosodic structures, markedness aspects as part of prosodic constraints and/or lexical prosodic representations, the relationship between regular and irregular items, and the neuro-cognitive representation and function of stress will be explored. In particular, assuming that penultimate stress is the default stress pattern in German (Wiese, 1996), we will investigate how this pattern can be modified by factors like quantity sensitivity, edge marking, prosodic structure, lexical associations and others, and how these factors can be captured within a theoretical model of (German) word stress.