TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jasinskaja, Ekaterina
A1  - Mayer, Jörg
A1  - Schlangen, David
T1  - Discourse structure and information structure
BT  - interfaces and prosodic realization
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of discourse structure (DS)/information structure (IS) interface. This field has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial progress in recent years. In this paper we summarize the relevant studies. In addition, we look at the issue of DS/ISinteraction at a different level - that of phonetics. It is known that both information structure and discourse structure can be realized prosodically, but the issue of phonetic interaction between the prosodic devices they employ has hardly ever been discussed in this context. We think that a proper consideration of this aspect of DS/IS-interaction would enrich our understanding of the phenomenon, and hence we formulate some related research-programmatic positions.
KW  - discourse structure
KW  - information structure
KW  - prosody
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8414
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 151
EP  - 206
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
T1  - Prosody by phase
BT  - evidence from focus intonation wh-scope correspondence in Japanese
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.
KW  - Japanese
KW  - wh-question
KW  - prosody
KW  - focus intonation
KW  - wh-scope
KW  - cyclicity
KW  - phase
KW  - Multiple Spell-Out
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8391
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 119
ER  -