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  - 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  - How focus and givennes shape prosody
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-0-19-957095-9
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  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Intonation of sentences with an NPI
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This paper presents the results of a production experiment on the intonation of sentences containing a negative polarity item (NPI) in Tokyo Japanese. The results show that NPI sentences exhibit a focus intonation: the F₀-peak of the word to which an NPI is attached is raised, while the pitch contour after the NPI-attached word is compressed until the negation. This intonation pattern is parallel to that of wh-question, in which the F₀ of the wh-phrase is raised while the post-wh-contour is compressed until the question particle.
KW  - Japanese
KW  - negative polarity item (NPI)
KW  - focus intonation
KW  - wh-question
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24497
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 65
EP  - 96
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - Prosody by phase
BT  - evidence from focus intonation wh-scope correspondence in Japanese
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - 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  - Japanese
KW  - wh-question
KW  - prosody
KW  - focus intonation
KW  - wh-scope
KW  - cyclicity
KW  - phase
KW  - Multiple Spell-Out
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8391
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 119
ER  -