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  - 
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  - BOOK
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2)
N2  - This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI2), held at University of Potsdam on March 18, 2005. WPSI 2 was aimed to discuss issues on the interaction of prosody, syntax, and information structure, from interdisciplinary points of view. The contributors (Haruo Kubozono, Shinichiro Ishihara, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Satoshi Tomioka) have been recently working on relevant issues, especially looking at the phenomena related to the intonation of focus and (wh-)questions in Japanese.
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 9 
KW  - syntax
KW  - prosody
KW  - information structure
KW  - interface
KW  - Japanese
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22234
SN  - 1866-4725
ER  - 
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  -