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.

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Author:	Shinichiro Ishihara
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112409
URL:	http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2449/pdf/isis09_03.pdf
Parent Title (German):	Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2) / Ishihara, Shinichiro (ed.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 9
Publisher:	Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:	Potsdam
Document Type:	Part of a Book
Language:	English
Date of Publication (online):	2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:	2007
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2008/11/06
Tag:	Japanese; focus intonation; negative polarity item (NPI); wh-question
Page Number:	32
First Page:	65
Last Page:	96
Source:	Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2), ISIS, 9 ; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2449/pdf/isis09_03.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:	207798303
Dewey Decimal Classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:	Linguistik
Licence (German):	Deutsches Urheberrecht

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