TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Herbst, Laura
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Schmitz, Michaela
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - German sentence accent revisited
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - 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.
KW  - Prosody
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Information structure
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8273
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 1
SP  - 43
EP  - 75
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Hellmuth, Sam
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - Mayer, Jörg
T1  - Phonology and intonation
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22217
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 7
SP  - 29
EP  - 53
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Drenhaus, Heiner
T1  - Single prosodic phrase sentences
N2  - 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.
KW  - Prosody
KW  - experimental linguistics
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19371
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Arnhold, Anja
T1  - Verum focus and negation
JF  - Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow
KW  - Festschrift
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Syntax
KW  - festschrift
KW  - information structure
KW  - linguistics
KW  - morphology
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432356
SN  - 978-3-86956-457-9
SP  - 213
EP  - 229
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
T1  - Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19692
ER  -