TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kubozono, Haruo
A2  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
A2  - Petrova, Svetlana
A2  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Focus and intonation in Japanese
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This paper discusses how focus changes prosodic structure in Tokyo Japanese. It is generally believed that focus blocks the intonational process of downstep and causes a pitch reset. This paper presents experimental evidence against this traditional view by looking at the prosodic behavior of Wh words, which receive focus lexically in Japanese as in other languages. It is demonstrated, specifically, that the focused Wh element does not block downstep although it receives a much higher pitch than its preceding element. This suggests that presence of lexical focus does not trigger pitch reset in Japanese.
KW  - Focus
KW  - Intonation
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Pitch Reset
KW  - Downstep
Y1  - 2008
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2261
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24472
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -