TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
T1  - Focus and prominence in Chichewa, Chitumbuka and Durban Zulu
T2  - Papers in phonetics and phonology, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin;  ZASPil  Vol. 49, S. 47-65
N2  - Much work on the interaction of prosody and focus assumes that, crosslinguistically, there is a necessary correlation between the position of main sentence stress (or accent) and focus, and that an intonational pitch change on the focused element is a primary correlate of focus. In this paper, I discuss primary data from three Bantu languages – Chichewa, Durban Zulu and Chitumbuka – and show that in all three languages phonological re-phrasing, not stress, is the main prosodic correlate of focus and that lengthening, not pitch movement, is the main prosodic correlate of phrasing. This result is of interest for the typology of intonation in illustrating languages where intonation has limited use and where, notably, intonation does not highlight focused information in the way we might expect from European stress languages.
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
KW  - Phonologie
KW  - Intonation <Linguistik>
KW  - Chewa-Sprache
KW  - Tumbuka-Sprache
KW  - Zulu-Sprache
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31021
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310217
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/175.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 49
SP  - 47
EP  - 65
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -