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Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation wh-scope correspondence in JapaneseIshihara, Shinichiro January 2004 (has links)
Japanese <i>wh</i>-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore,
the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the <i>wh</i>-scope. I
propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of
the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of
<i>Multiple Spell-Out</i> 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 <i>wh</i>-phrase to a phase edge position
causes a mismatch between FI and <i>wh</i>-scope. Both predictions are
tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.
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Intonation of sentences with an NPIIshihara, Shinichiro January 2007 (has links)
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.
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