Focus and tone

  • Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category focus is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies. In intonation languages, focus is marked by pitch movements, which are also perceived as tone. The present article discusses prosodic focus marking in these two language types.

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Author:Katharina HartmannGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112268
URL:http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1972/
ISBN:978-3-939469-88-9
Parent Title (German):The notions of information structure / Caroline Féry (ed.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 6
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:2006
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:focus; intonation (language); pitch accent; prosodic phrasing; tone (language)
Page Number:15
First Page:221
Last Page:235
Source:Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) ; 6 (2007) ; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1972/
HeBIS-PPN:207614636
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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