Intonation of sentences with an NPI
- 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.
Author details: | Shinichiro Ishihara |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24497 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Editor(s): | Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Anne Schwarz |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2007 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2008/10/21 |
Tag: | Japanese; focus intonation; negative polarity item (NPI); wh-question |
Volume: | 9 |
First page: | 65 |
Last Page: | 96 |
Source: | Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2). - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007. - S. 65 - 96.- (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 9) |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2007) 09 |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | erschienen in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2). -Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007 - 118 S.(Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 9) ISSN 1866-4725 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22234 |