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  -