TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kitagawa, Yoshihisa
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - When we fail to question in Japanese
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - When we pay close attention to the prosody of Wh-questions in Japanese, we discover many novel and interesting empirical puzzles that would require us to devise a much finer syntactic component of grammar. This paper addresses the issues that pose some problems to such an elaborated grammar, and offers solutions, making an appeal to the information structure and sentence processing involved in the interpretation of interrogative and focus constructions.
KW  - focus
KW  - (implicit) prosody
KW  - information structure
KW  - processing
KW  - Wh-question
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24481
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 29
EP  - 64
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Intonation of sentences with an NPI
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - 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.
KW  - Japanese
KW  - negative polarity item (NPI)
KW  - focus intonation
KW  - wh-question
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24497
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 65
EP  - 96
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tomioka, Satoshi
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Intervention effects in focus
BT  - from a Japanese point of view
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - The most recent trend in the studies of LF intervention effects makes crucial reference to focusing effects on the interveners, and this paper critically examines the representative analyses of the focus-based approach. While each analysis has its own merits and shortcomings, I argue that a pragmatic analysis that does not make appeal to syntactic configurations is better equipped to deal with many of the complex and delicate facts surrounding intervention effects.
KW  - Intervention Effect
KW  - Alternative Semantics
KW  - Whinterrogatives
KW  - Focus
KW  - Topic
KW  - Post-Focus Reduction
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24502
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 97
EP  - 118
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kubozono, Haruo
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Focus and intonation in Japanese
BT  - Does focus trigger pitch reset?
JF  - 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  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?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  -