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- who: Giuliano Bocci from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy have published the paper: Focus in wh-questions, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh-questions in Italian showing that the Nuclear Pitch Accent (NPA) and main stress fall on the lexical verb without a concomitant focal interpretation of the latter. The authors show that NPA assignment is sensitive to the derivational history of the wh-phrase under short-distance vs. long-distance extraction. In the second approach, focus is directly marked by prosody and, semantically . . .
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