No prosody-syntax trade-offs: Prosody marks focus in Mandarin cleft constructions In line with the idea that language has evolved to be efficient and to avoid redundancy, syntactic means of marking information structure have been derived from prosodic ones, and vice versa, for many...

Linguists have often observed prosody-syntax interactions in #informationstructure marking, but do speakers rely less on #prosody when #clefting already marks focus? In #Mandarin #Chinese, such tradeoffs aren't found in production or perception: doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess