TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kubozono, Haruo
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Focus and intonation in Japanese
BT  - Does focus trigger pitch reset?
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This paper discusses how focus changes prosodic structure in Tokyo Japanese. It is generally believed that focus blocks the intonational process of downstep and causes a pitch reset. This paper presents experimental evidence against this traditional view by looking at the prosodic behavior of Wh words, which receive focus lexically in Japanese as in other languages. It is demonstrated, specifically, that the focused Wh element does not block downstep although it receives a much higher pitch than its preceding element. This suggests that presence of lexical focus does not trigger pitch reset in Japanese.
KW  - Focus
KW  - Intonation
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Pitch Reset
KW  - Downstep
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24472
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Asher, Nicholas
A1  - Reese, Brian
T1  - Intonation and discourse
BT  - biased questions
N2  - This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions. We postulate that these question types are complex speech acts and outline an analysis in Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) to account for the interactions between prosody and discourse.
KW  - Bias
KW  - Intonation
KW  - Prosody
KW  - Complex Speech Acts
KW  - Negative
KW  - Polar Questions
KW  - Tag Questions
KW  - SDRT
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19399
ER  -