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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2449 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Ishihara, Shinichiro |
| Contributors | Ishihara, Shinichiro (ed.), Petrova, Svetlana (ed.), Schwarz, Anne (ed.) |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Proceedings 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) |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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