TY  - JOUR
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Asatiani, Rusudan
T1  - Word order and intonation in Georgian
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00243841
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.001
SN  - 0024-3841
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - The phonology of second occurrence focus
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_LIN
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226709005702
SN  - 0022-2267
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Drenhaus, Heiner
T1  - Animacy and child language : An OT account
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2008
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.006
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Kaiser, Elsi
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Perception of intonational contours on given and new referents : a completion study and an eye-movement experiment
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-3-11-021922-7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - How focus and givennes shape prosody
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-0-19-957095-9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
A1  - Féry, Caroline
T1  - Introduction
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-0-19-957095-9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - van de Vijver, Ruben
T1  - Pitch accents realization in German
Y1  - 2003
SN  - 1-87634-649-3
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - Ineffability in OT
Y1  - 2002
SN  - 978-3-87548-314-7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
T1  - Alvin A. Liberman
Y1  - 1999
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - Grammatik mit Widersprüchen
Y1  - 2002
ER  -