@article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {The fallacy of invariant phonological correlates of Information structural Notions}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FerySkopeteas2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Skopeteas, Stavros}, title = {Contrastive Topics in Pairing Answers : a Cross-Linguistic Production Study}, isbn = {3-11-019315-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {The prosodic basis of of Topicalization}, isbn = {978-90-272-3364-6}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FerySamekLodovici2006, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Samek-Lodovici, Vieri}, title = {Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci}, issn = {0097-8507}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2006, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Gradient Perception of Intonation}, isbn = {0-19-927479-7}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{FeryIshihara2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Ishihara, Shinichiro}, title = {Phonetic correlates of Second occurrence Focus}, isbn = {1-4196-5252-4}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Laute und leise Prosodie}, isbn = {3-11-018871-6}, year = {2005}, language = {de} } @article{FeryMorimotoMchombo2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Morimoto, Yokiko and Mchombo, Sam}, title = {Partitioning Discourse Information : a case Chichewa split constituents}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{FeryHartmann2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Hartmann, Katharina}, title = {The Focus and prosodic structure of German Gapping and right Node Raising}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{FeryTruckenbrodt2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Truckenbrodt, Hubert}, title = {Sisterhood and tonal scaling}, issn = {0039-3193}, year = {2005}, abstract = {This paper discusses central aspects of the effects of hierarchical structure on tonal scaling in intonation. The core results of a number of phonetic studies on this topic, by Ladd, by van den Berg, Gussenhoven and Rietveld, as well as experimental results of our own, are reviewed. We review the suggestions of this earlier work and argue for an addition to the theory. The principle 'The deeper the steeper' says that downstep among sister nodes is relatively larger if these sister-nodes are relatively more deeply embedded in the prosodic representation}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2004, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {German accent revisited}, year = {2004}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French}, year = {2003}, abstract = {The quality of vowels in French depends to a large extent on the kind of syllables they are in. Tense vowels are often in open syllables and lax vowels in closed ones. This generalization, which has been called loi de position in the literature, is often overridden by special vowel-consonant coocurrence restrictions obscuring the generalization. The paper shows first that the admission of semi-syllables in the phonology of French explains a large number of counterexamples. Many final closing consonants on the phonetic representation can be understood as onsets of following rhymeless syllables, opening in this way the last full syllable. Arguments coming from phonotactic regularities support this analysis. The second insight of the paper is that the Optimality Theory is a good framework to account for the intricate data bearing on the relationship between vowels and syllable structure. The loi de position is an effect dubbed Emergence of the Unmarked, instantiated only in case no higher-ranking constraint renders it inactive.}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Gradedness in the segmental correlates of focus and prosodic phrasing in French}, isbn = {3-8233-6016-7}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Final Devoicing and the stratification of the lexicon in German}, isbn = {90-272-4745-5}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2001, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Focus and Phrasing in French}, isbn = {3-05-003672-9}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Onset and non-moraic syllables in German}, isbn = {0-521-77262-1}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{FeryvandeVijver2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and van de Vijver, Ruben}, title = {The Syllable in Optimality Theory}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge, New York}, isbn = {0-521-77262-1}, pages = {428 S.}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2002, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Lautsysteme der Sprache : Phonologie}, isbn = {3-8252-2169-5}, year = {2002}, language = {de} } @book{Fery2004, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen}, series = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, journal = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, number = {7}, edition = {3., {\"u}berarb. Aufl.}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10916}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Inhalt: Kapitel 1: Phonetische Grundlagen: Akustische Phonetik Kapitel 2: Phonetische Grundlagen: Artikulatorische Phonetik Kapitel 3: Segment und Allophonie Kapitel 4: Distinktive Merkmale Kapitel 5: Die Silbe: prosodische Struktur der W{\"o}rter Kapitel 6: Derivationen und OT: die phonologischen Theorien}, language = {de} } @article{FeryIshihara2009, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Ishihara, Shinichiro}, title = {The phonology of second occurrence focus}, issn = {0022-2267}, doi = {10.1017/S0022226709005702}, year = {2009}, abstract = {This paper investigates the question of whether and how 'Second Occurrence Focus' (SOF) is realized phonetically in German. The apparent lack of phonetic marking on SOF has raised much discussion oil the semantic theory Of focus (Partee 1999, Rooth 1992). Some researchers have reported the existence of phonetic marking of SOF in the postnuclear area (Rooth 1996, Beaver et al. 2007). In our experimental study with German sentences, we examined sentences both with prenuclear SOF and with postnuclear SOF, comparing them with their first occurrence focus (FOF) and non-focus counterparts. The results show that the phonetic prominence of focus (higher pitch/longer duration) is realized differently according to the type of focus as well as according to the position of the target expression. We account for these differences by considering several phonetic effects, those that are information-structure-related and those that are phonologically motivated.}, language = {en} } @article{FeryKueglervandeVijver2003, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and K{\"u}gler, Frank and van de Vijver, Ruben}, title = {Pitch accents realization in German}, isbn = {1-87634-649-3}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{SkopeteasFeryAsatiani2009, author = {Skopeteas, Stavros and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Asatiani, Rusudan}, title = {Word order and intonation in Georgian}, issn = {0024-3841}, doi = {10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.001}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Georgian is famous for its word order flexibility: all permutations of constituent order are possible and the choice among them is primarily determined by information structure. In this paper, we show that word order is not the only means to encode information structure in this language, but it is used in combination with sentence prosody. After a preliminary description of the use of prosodic phrasing and intonation for this purpose, we address the question of the interrelation between these two strategies. Based on experimental evidence, we investigate the interaction of focus with word order and prosody, and we conclude that some aspects of word order variation are pragmatically vacuous and can be accommodated in any context if they are realized with an appropriate prosodic structure, while other word order phenomena are quite restrictive and cannot be overridden through prosodic manipulations.}, language = {en} } @article{FeryKaiserHoernigetal.2009, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Kaiser, Elsi and H{\"o}rnig, Robin and Weskott, Thomas and Kliegl, Reinhold}, title = {Perception of intonational contours on given and new referents : a completion study and an eye-movement experiment}, isbn = {978-3-11-021922-7}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{FeryDrenhaus2008, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Drenhaus, Heiner}, title = {Animacy and child language : An OT account}, doi = {10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.006}, year = {2008}, abstract = {In this paper we report the results of an elicited imitation task on dative case marking in non-canonical double object constructions with 22 German children (3;9-6;8). The aim was to test the proficiency of the children's grammar and to see which strategies they use to produce ditransitive sentences in which the direct object precedes the indirect object. The analysis of the children's utterances/imitations shows that the animacy of the direct object affects the overt dative case marking of the indirect object. Children made more errors repeating dative case marking when the direct object was inanimate, i.e., they produced the accusative case on the indirect object (non-adult-like). When both objects were animate, children correctly produced the dative case on the indirect object. We describe and account for these performance strategies of the children in the framework of Optimality Theory. Assuming that the same universal constraints are at work as in the adult grammar, the difference between adults and children lies in the constraint ranking. We focus on a prominent pattern found in children's performance, which is absent (or rather oppressed) in the corresponding adult performance, and show that one and the same grammar accounts for both (in the sense of "strong continuity"). (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @article{ZimmermannFery2010, author = {Zimmermann, Malte and F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Introduction}, isbn = {978-0-19-957095-9}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{FeryIshihara2010, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Ishihara, Shinichiro}, title = {How focus and givennes shape prosody}, isbn = {978-0-19-957095-9}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @book{Fery2001, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, edition = {2. Aufl}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-35-8}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {221 S.}, year = {2001}, language = {de} } @book{Fery2001, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French}, series = {Phonology in Potsdam}, journal = {Phonology in Potsdam}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-37-2}, pages = {1 -- 32}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @book{Fery2000, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-14-3}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {236 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {de} } @book{Fery2000, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-22-8}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {231 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {de} } @article{Fery1999, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Alvin A. Liberman}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @article{FeryArnhold2019, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Arnhold, Anja}, title = {Verum focus and negation}, series = {Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow}, journal = {Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-457-9}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43235}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432356}, pages = {213 -- 229}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{KueglerFery2017, author = {Kuegler, Frank and Fery, Caroline}, title = {Postfocal Downstep in German}, series = {Language and speech}, volume = {60}, journal = {Language and speech}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0023-8309}, doi = {10.1177/0023830916647204}, pages = {260 -- 288}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article is a follow-up study of Fery and Kugler (2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 680-703). It reports on an experiment of the F0 height of potential pitch accents in the postfocal region of German sentences and addresses in this way an aspect of the influence of information structure on the intonation of sentences that was left open in the previous article. The results of the experiment showed that, when several constituents are located in this position, they are often in a downstep relation, but are rarely upstepped. In 37\% of the cases, the pitch accents are only realized dynamically and there is no down- or upstepping. We interpret these results as evidence that postfocal constituents are phrased independently. The data examined speak against a model of postfocal intonation in which postfocal phrasing is eliminated and all accents are reduced to zero. Instead, the pitch accents are often present, although reduced. Moreover, the facts support the existence of prosodic phrasing of the postfocal constituents; the postfocal position implies an extremely compressed register, but no dephrasing or systematic complete deaccentuation of all pitch accents. We propose adopting a model of German intonation in which prosodic phrasing is determined by syntactic structure and cannot be changed by information structure. The role of information structure in prosody is limited to changes in the register relationship of the different parts of the sentence. Prefocally, there is no or only little register compression because of givenness. Postfocally, register compression is the rule. A model of intonation must take this asymmetry into account.}, language = {en} } @book{SkopeteasFiedlerHellmuthetal.2006, author = {Skopeteas, Stavros and Fiedler, Ines and Hellmuth, Sam and Schwarz, Anne and Stoel, Ruben and Fanselow, Gisbert and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Krifka, Manfred}, title = {Questionnaire on information structure (OUIS): reference manual}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-939469-14-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-12413}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {263}, year = {2006}, abstract = {Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Information Structure 2 Grammatical Correlates of Information Structure 3 Structure of the Questionnaire 4 Experimental Tasks 5 Technicalities 6 Archiving 7 Acknowledgments Chapter 2. General Questions 1 General Information 2 Phonology 3 Morphology and Syntax Chapter 3. Experimental tasks 1 Changes (Given/New in Intransitives and Transitives) 2 Giving (Given/New in Ditransitives) 3 Visibility (Given/New, Animacy and Type/Token Reference) 4 Locations (Given/New in Locative Expressions) 5 Sequences (Given/New/Contrast in Transitives) 6 Dynamic Localization (Given/New in Dynamic Loc. Descriptions) 7 Birthday Party (Weight and Discourse Status) 8 Static Localization (Macro-Planning and Given/New in Locatives) 9 Guiding (Presentational Utterances) 10 Event Cards (All New) 11 Anima (Focus types and Animacy) 12 Contrast (Contrast in pairing events) 13 Animal Game (Broad/Narrow Focus in NP) 14 Properties (Focus on Property and Possessor) 15 Eventives (Thetic and Categorical Utterances) 16 Tell a Story (Contrast in Text) 17 Focus Cards (Selective, Restrictive, Additive, Rejective Focus) 18 Who does What (Answers to Multiple Constituent Questions) 19 Fairy Tale (Topic and Focus in Coherent Discourse) 20 Map Task (Contrastive and Selective Focus in Spontaneous Dialogue) 21 Drama (Contrastive Focus in Argumentation) 22 Events in Places (Spatial, Temporal and Complex Topics) 23 Path Descriptions (Topic Change in Narrative) 24 Groups (Partial Topic) 25 Connections (Bridging Topic) 26 Indirect (Implicational Topic) 27 Surprises (Subject-Topic Interrelation) 28 Doing (Action Given, Action Topic) 29 Influences (Question Priming) Chapter 4. Translation tasks 1 Basic Intonational Properties 2 Focus Translation 3 Topic Translation 4 Quantifiers Chapter 5. Information structure summary survey 1 Preliminaries 2 Syntax 3 Morphology 4 Prosody 5 Summary: Information structure Chapter 6. Performance of Experimental Tasks in the Field 1 Field sessions 2 Field Session Metadata 3 Informants' Agreement}, language = {en} } @article{FeryHerbst2004, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Herbst, Laura}, title = {German sentence accent revisited}, series = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632}, journal = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632}, number = {1}, editor = {Ishihara, Shinichiro and Schmitz, Michaela and Schwarz, Anne}, issn = {1614-4708}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8273}, pages = {43 -- 75}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Results of a production experiment on the placement of sentence accent in German are reported. The hypothesis that German fulfills some of the most widely accepted rules of accent assignment— predicting focus domain integration—was only partly confirmed. Adjacency between argument and verb induces a single accent on the argument, as recognized in the literature, but interruption of this sequence by a modifier often induces remodeling of the accent pattern with a single accent on the modifier. The verb is rarely stressed. All models based on linear alignment or adjacency between elements belonging to a single accent domain fail to account for this result. A cyclic analysis of prosodic domain formation is proposed in an optimality-theoretic framework that can explain the accent pattern. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.}, language = {en} } @misc{FeryKuegler2008, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and K{\"u}gler, Frank}, title = {Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46091}, year = {2008}, abstract = {The influence of information structure on tonal scaling in German is examined experimentally. Eighteen speakers uttered a total of 2277 sentences of the same syntactic structure, but with a varying number of constituents, word order and focus-given structure. The quantified results for German support findings for other Germanic languages that the scaling of high tones, and thus the entire melodic pattern, is influenced by information structure. Narrow focus raised the high tones of pitch accents, while givenness lowered them in prenuclear position and canceled them out postnuclearly. The effects of focus and givenness are calculated against all-new sentences as a baseline, which we expected to be characterized by downstep, a significantly lower scaling of high tones as compared to declination. The results further show that information structure alone cannot account for all variations. We therefore assume that dissimilatory tonal effects play a crucial role in the tonal scaling of German. The effects consist of final f0 drop, a steep fall from a raised high tone to the bottom line of the speaker, H-raising before a low tone, and H-lowering before a raised high tone. No correlation between word order and tone scaling could be established. 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @article{FeryFanselowKrifka2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert and Krifka, Manfred}, title = {Introduction}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FeryFanselowPaslawska2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert and Paslawska, Alla}, title = {Nominal Split Construction in Ukrainian}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @book{FanselowFerySchlesewskyetal.2006, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Vogel, Ralf}, title = {Gradience in grammar : generative perspectives}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford, New York}, isbn = {0-19-927479-7}, pages = {416 S.}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{FeryFanselow2002, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert}, title = {Leitthema Konfligierende Regeln : Wege zu formalen Modellen der Kognition}, year = {2002}, language = {de} } @article{FeryFanselow2002, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert}, title = {Grammatik mit Widerspr{\"u}chen}, year = {2002}, language = {de} } @article{FeryFanselow2002, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert}, title = {Ineffability in OT}, isbn = {978-3-87548-314-7}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @article{FeryDrenhaus2008, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Drenhaus, Heiner}, title = {Single prosodic phrase sentences}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19371}, year = {2008}, abstract = {A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are reported on here. The results help us to decide between different models of German prosody. The absence of pitch height difference on the accent of the sentence speaks in favor of a relative model of prosody, in which accents are scaled relative to each other, and against models in which pitch accents are scaled in an absolute way. The results also speak for a model in which syntax, but not information structure, influences the prosodic phrasing. Finally, perception experiments show that the prosodic structure of sentences with a marked word order needs to be presented for grammaticality judgments. Presentation of written material only is not enough, and falsifies the results.}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19692}, year = {2007}, abstract = {In a first step, definitions of the irreducible information structural categories are given, and in a second step, it is shown that there are no invariant phonological or otherwise grammatical correlates of these categories. In other words, the phonology, syntax or morphology are unable to define information structure. It is a common mistake that information structural categories are expressed by invariant grammatical correlates, be they syntactic, morphological or phonological. It is rather the case that grammatical cues help speaker and hearer to sort out which element carries which information structural role, and only in this sense are the grammatical correlates of information structure important. Languages display variation as to the role of grammar in enhancing categories of information structure, and this variation reflects the variation found in the 'normal' syntax and phonology of languages.}, language = {en} } @article{FeryHellmuthKuegleretal.2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Hellmuth, Sam and K{\"u}gler, Frank and Mayer, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Phonology and intonation}, series = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS}, journal = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS}, number = {7}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1614-4708}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22217}, pages = {29 -- 53}, year = {2007}, abstract = {The encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects of information structure, in languages across a range of prosodic types. The guidelines are designed with the aim that a nonspecialist in phonology can both implement and interpret the resulting annotation.}, language = {en} } @misc{PatilKentnerGollradetal.2008, author = {Patil, Umesh and Kentner, Gerrit and Gollrad, Anja and K{\"u}gler, Frank and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Focus, word order and intonation in Hindi}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46118}, year = {2008}, abstract = {A production study is presented that investigates the effects of word order and information structural context on the prosodic realization of declarative sentences in Hindi. Previous work on Hindi intonation has shown that: (i) non-final content words bear rising pitch accents (Moore 1965, Dyrud 2001, Nair 1999); (ii) focused constituents show greater pitch excursion and longer duration and that post-focal material undergoes pitch range reduction (Moore 1965, Harnsberger 1994, Harnsberger and Judge 1996); and (iii) focused constituents may be followed by a phrase break (Moore 1965). By means of a controlled experiment, we investigated the effect of focus in relation to word order variation using 1200 utterances produced by 20 speakers. Fundamental frequency (F0) and duration of constituents were measured in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) and Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) sentences in different information structural conditions (wide focus, subject focus and object focus). The analyses indicate that (i) regardless of word order and focus, the constituents are in a strict downstep relationship; (ii) focus is mainly characterized by post-focal pitch range reduction rather than pitch raising of the element in focus; (iii) given expressions that occur pre-focally appear to undergo no reduction; (iv) pitch excursion and duration of the constituents is higher in OSV compared to SOV sentences. A phonological analysis suggests that focus affects pitch scaling and that word order influences prosodic phrasing of the constituents.}, language = {en} } @book{FanselowFery2002, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {A short treatise of optimality theory}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-54-9}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {147}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @book{OlsenStiebelsBierwischetal.2019, author = {Olsen, Susan and Stiebels, Barbara and Bierwisch, Manfred and Zimmermann, Ilse and Cavar, Damir and Georgi, Doreen and Bacskai-Atkari, Julia and Alexiadou, Artemis and Błaszczak, Joanna and M{\"u}ller, Gereon and Šim{\´i}k, Radek and Meinunger, Andr{\´e} and Thiersch, Craig and Arnhold, Anja and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Bayer, Josef and Titov, Elena and Fominyam, Henry and Tran, Thuan and Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina D. and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Zimmermann, Malte and H{\"a}ussler, Jana and Mucha, Anne and Schmidt, Andreas and Weskott, Thomas and Wierzba, Marta and Stede, Manfred and Skopeteas, Stavros and Gafos, Adamantios I. and Haider, Hubert and Wunderlich, Dieter and Staudacher, Peter and Rauh, Gisa}, title = {Of Trees and Birds}, editor = {Brown, Jessica M. M. and Schmidt, Andreas and Wierzba, Marta}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-457-9}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42654}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426542}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xvi, 435}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Gisbert Fanselow's work has been invaluable and inspiring to many ­researchers working on syntax, morphology, and information ­structure, both from a ­theoretical and from an experimental perspective. This ­volume comprises a collection of articles dedicated to Gisbert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, covering a range of topics from these areas and beyond. The contributions have in ­common that in a broad sense they have to do with language structures (and thus trees), and that in a more specific sense they have to do with birds. They thus cover two of Gisbert's major interests in- and outside of the linguistic world (and ­perhaps even at the interface).}, language = {en} }