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  -