Book Reviews

Marcel den Dikken-Robert M. Vago (eds): Approaches to Hungarian, Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conferenc

Phrase-initial boundary tones in Hungarian interrogatives and exclamatives

There is a group of wh-interrogatives and wh-exclamatives in Hungarian that are distinguished only by means of prosody. It was shown previously that the distinction consists in having falling pitch accents on the wh-element in interrogatives, and rising pitch accents in exclamatives. In this paper, the relevance of sentence-initial f0 is investigated as a potential trigger for the above differences. A perception experiment was set up in which sentence-initial and sentence-final chunks containing only f0 information were presented to participants, along with the wh-element bearing the only pitch accent of the sentence. It was shown that sentence-initial chunks carried the most relevant information for sentence type identification, whereas pitch accent type and entence-final f0 were less informative. The findings suggest that phrase-initial boundary tones are of relevance in Hungarian prosody

Book reviews

Paul D. Elbourne: Situations and individuals. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2005. 248 pp. ; Anna Sőrés: Le hongrois dans la typologie des langues. Editions Lambert-Lucas. Limoges, 2006. 185 pp. ; Csilla Bartha (ed.): Cigány nyelvek és közösségek a Kárpát-medencében [Gypsy com- munities and their languages in the Carpathian Basin]. Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 2007. 344 pp. ; Vivian J. Cook and Mark Newson: Chomsky’s Universal Grammar. An Introduction. Third edition. Blackwell, Malden MA & Oxford, 2007, 326 pp

Teasing apart lexical stress and sentence accent in Hungarian and German

Szalontai Á, Wagner P, Mády K, Windmann A. Teasing apart lexical stress and sentence accent in Hungarian and German. In: Tagungsband 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 12). 2016: 216-219