“…Garde, 1968;Lambrecht, 1994), it has been argued that French patterns with other Romance languages by having a comparatively fixed accent distribution, and by being resistant to moving pitch accents within certain syntactic constituents. Various researchers have argued that accents serve mainly a demarcative function in French, in that speakers reserve primary stresses for syllables in phrase-final position (Di Cristo, 1999, 2000D'Imperio, German, & Michelas, 2012;Jun & Fougeron, 2002;Mertens, 2006;Post, 2000Post, , 2011. Just like other non-plastic languages, French would rely more on other (syntactic) devices for marking information that is important to the discourse.…”