Recursive focus prosody
| العنوان: | Recursive focus prosody |
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| المؤلفون: | Ishihara, Shinichiro, van de Weijer, Joost |
| المساهمون: | Ting, Jen, Editor, Hsu, Yu-Yin, Editor |
| المصدر: | Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages : A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa - A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa. :183-208 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | focus, prosody, prosodic recursion, wh-question, syntax–prosody interface, Japanese, Humaniora och konst, Språk och litteratur, Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik, Humanities, Languages and Literature, General Language Studies and Linguistics |
| الوصف: | This paper presents results of a production experiment testing the recursivity of prosodic realization of focus in Tokyo Japanese. Tokyo Japanese wh-questions obligatorily exhibit focus prosody, which starts from a wh-phrase (WH) and continues until the question particle (Q) that binds the wh-phrase (Deguchi and Kitagawa 2002; Ishihara 2002, 2003). The current study examines the case where one WH–Q dependency is embedded inside the scope of another WH–Q dependency (namely, a matrix wh-question containing an indirect wh-question, e.g., Who remembers what John drank?). The results confirmed a claim that focus prosody can be realized recursively, while they also showed inter-speaker variation as to the availability of such recursive focus prosody. The paper discusses theoretical implications on recursivity of prosodic structure as well as recursivity of information structure. |
| URL الوصول: | https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/2386e944-e61c-4fba-afe6-bb648ad122b8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4445-1_9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
| تدمد: | 25225111 25225103 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-19-4445-1_9 |