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Intonation of sentences with an NPI

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2449
Date January 2007
CreatorsIshihara, Shinichiro
ContributorsIshihara, Shinichiro (ed.), Petrova, Svetlana (ed.), Schwarz, Anne (ed.)
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2). - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007. - S. 65 - 96.- (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 9)
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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