TY - JOUR A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates N2 - In a first step, definitions of the irreducible information structural categories are given, and in a second step, it is shown that there are no invariant phonological or otherwise grammatical correlates of these categories. In other words, the phonology, syntax or morphology are unable to define information structure. It is a common mistake that information structural categories are expressed by invariant grammatical correlates, be they syntactic, morphological or phonological. It is rather the case that grammatical cues help speaker and hearer to sort out which element carries which information structural role, and only in this sense are the grammatical correlates of information structure important. Languages display variation as to the role of grammar in enhancing categories of information structure, and this variation reflects the variation found in the ‘normal’ syntax and phonology of languages. Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19692 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 - 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 - Kügler, Frank A1 - van de Vijver, Ruben T1 - Pitch accents realization in German Y1 - 2003 SN - 1-87634-649-3 ER - 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 - Drenhaus, Heiner T1 - Animacy and child language : An OT account N2 - In this paper we report the results of an elicited imitation task on dative case marking in non-canonical double object constructions with 22 German children (3;9-6;8). The aim was to test the proficiency of the children's grammar and to see which strategies they use to produce ditransitive sentences in which the direct object precedes the indirect object. The analysis of the children's utterances/imitations shows that the animacy of the direct object affects the overt dative case marking of the indirect object. Children made more errors repeating dative case marking when the direct object was inanimate, i.e., they produced the accusative case on the indirect object (non-adult-like). When both objects were animate, children correctly produced the dative case on the indirect object. We describe and account for these performance strategies of the children in the framework of Optimality Theory. Assuming that the same universal constraints are at work as in the adult grammar, the difference between adults and children lies in the constraint ranking. We focus on a prominent pattern found in children's performance, which is absent (or rather oppressed) in the corresponding adult performance, and show that one and the same grammar accounts for both (in the sense of "strong continuity"). (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Y1 - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Malte A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Introduction Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-0-19-957095-9 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 - BOOK A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalitätstheoretische Einführung T3 - Linguistics in Potsdam - 7, 2. Aufl. Y1 - 2001 SN - 978-3-935024-35-8 SN - 1616-7392 PB - Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle CY - Potsdam ET - 2. Aufl ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Féry, Caroline T1 - Markedness, Faithfulness, Vowel Quality and Syllable Structure in French T3 - Phonology in Potsdam Y1 - 2001 SN - 978-3-935024-37-2 SP - 1 EP - 32 PB - Universität CY - Potsdam ER -