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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.

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Author details:Susanne GenzelGND, Frank Kügler
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):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
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