How to elicit semi-spontaneous focus realizations with specific tonal patterns
- This article presents a situation description production experiment investigating the interaction between syntax and information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger- Congo family spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put the object in narrow informational focus or narrow corrective focus while controlling for the tonal structure of the target word. Contrary to the prediction that corrective focus is marked by fronting and morphological marking of the focused constituent the data suggest that the in-situ strategy is the preferred one.
Author details: | Susanne GenzelGND, Frank Kügler |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49749 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2011/01/04 |
Tag: | Akan; information structure; syntax |
Issue: | 13 |
First page: | 77 |
Last Page: | 102 |
Source: | Grubic, Mira et al.: Linguistic Fieldnotes I: Information Structure in different African Languages. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2010 - (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 13). - S. 77 - 102 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
Organizational units: | Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
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 (2010) 13 |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |