TY  - JOUR
A1  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - How to elicit semi-spontaneous focus realizations with specific tonal patterns
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - 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.
KW  - Akan
KW  - information structure
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4729
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49749
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 13
SP  - 77
EP  - 102
ER  -