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  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - Interpreting the CCD prosodically
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/thli
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/Thli.2009.017
SN  - 0301-4428
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - Phonetic correlates of Second occurrence Focus
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 1-4196-5252-4
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  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
A1  - Suranyi, Balazs
T1  - The prosodic expression of focus, contrast and givenness: A production study of Hungarian
JF  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
N2  - This paper reports the results of a production experiment that explores the prosodic realization of focus in Hungarian, a language that is characterized by obligatory syntactic focus marking. Our study investigates narrow focus in sentences in which focus is unambiguously marked by syntactic means, comparing it to broad focus sentences. Potential independent effects of the salience (textual givenness) of the background of the narrow focus and the contrastiveness of the focus are controlled for and are also examined.
 The results show that both continuous phonetic measures and categorical factors such as the distribution of contour types are affected by the focus-related factors, despite the presence of syntactic focus marking. The phonetic effects found are mostly parallel to those of typical prosodic focus marking languages like English. The prosodic prominence required of focus is realized through changes to the scaling and slope of F0 targets and contours. The asymmetric prominence relation between the focus and the background can be expressed not only by the phonetic marking of the prominence of the focused element, but also by the phonetic marking of the reduced prominence of the background. Furthermore, contrastiveness of focus and (textual) givenness of the background show independent phonetic effects, both of them affecting the realization of the background. These results are argued to shed light on alternative approaches to the information structural notion of contrastive focus and the relation between the notions of focus and givenness. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Hungarian
KW  - Prosody
KW  - Focus
KW  - Background
KW  - Givenness
KW  - Contrast
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.07.010
SN  - 0024-3841
SN  - 1872-6135
VL  - 165
SP  - 183
EP  - 204
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -