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 - 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 A1 - van de Vijver, Ruben T1 - The Syllable in Optimality Theory Y1 - 2003 SN - 0-521-77262-1 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge, New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - The prosodic basis of of Topicalization Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-90-272-3364-6 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 - Hartmann, Katharina T1 - The Focus and prosodic structure of German Gapping and right Node Raising Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - The fallacy of invariant phonological correlates of Information structural Notions Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-939469-88-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline A1 - Truckenbrodt, Hubert T1 - Sisterhood and tonal scaling N2 - This paper discusses central aspects of the effects of hierarchical structure on tonal scaling in intonation. The core results of a number of phonetic studies on this topic, by Ladd, by van den Berg, Gussenhoven and Rietveld, as well as experimental results of our own, are reviewed. We review the suggestions of this earlier work and argue for an addition to the theory. The principle 'The deeper the steeper' says that downstep among sister nodes is relatively larger if these sister-nodes are relatively more deeply embedded in the prosodic representation Y1 - 2005 SN - 0039-3193 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 - 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 - 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 - Ishihara, Shinichiro T1 - Phonetic correlates of Second occurrence Focus Y1 - 2005 SN - 1-4196-5252-4 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 - Morimoto, Yokiko A1 - Mchombo, Sam T1 - Partitioning Discourse Information : a case Chichewa split constituents Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Onset and non-moraic syllables in German Y1 - 2003 SN - 0-521-77262-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline A1 - Fanselow, Gisbert A1 - Paslawska, Alla T1 - Nominal Split Construction in Ukrainian Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French N2 - The quality of vowels in French depends to a large extent on the kind of syllables they are in. Tense vowels are often in open syllables and lax vowels in closed ones. This generalization, which has been called loi de position in the literature, is often overridden by special vowel-consonant coocurrence restrictions obscuring the generalization. The paper shows first that the admission of semi-syllables in the phonology of French explains a large number of counterexamples. Many final closing consonants on the phonetic representation can be understood as onsets of following rhymeless syllables, opening in this way the last full syllable. Arguments coming from phonotactic regularities support this analysis. The second insight of the paper is that the Optimality Theory is a good framework to account for the intricate data bearing on the relationship between vowels and syllable structure. The loi de position is an effect dubbed Emergence of the Unmarked, instantiated only in case no higher-ranking constraint renders it inactive. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline A1 - Fanselow, Gisbert T1 - Leitthema Konfligierende Regeln : Wege zu formalen Modellen der Kognition Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Lautsysteme der Sprache : Phonologie Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-8252-2169-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Laute und leise Prosodie Y1 - 2005 SN - 3-11-018871-6 ER -