Prosodic marking in Russian multiple wh-questions: A sentence production study

Although the prosody of regular constituent/wh-questions is increasingly often discussed in the context of theories of prominence, focus and prosodic constituency (e.g [1]), prosodic contours of multiple wh-questions (cf. English Who bought what?) received surprisingly little attention in the literature so far. Slavic languages offer an additional dimension of interest to the problem as all wh-phrases are typically fronted in the clausal left periphery forming a wh-cluster, cf. Russian (1). Investigation of prosody of multiple wh-questions in these languages is likely to bring new theoretical insights, in particular, regarding realization of units with very similar prosodic properties, limits of prosodic autonomy of wh-phrases and the degree of mapping between prosodic and syntactic boundaries (cf. [2])