TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
A1  - Mtenje, Al
A1  - Pompino-Marschall, Bernd
T1  - Prosody and information structure in Chichewa
T2  - Papers in phonetics and phonology / editors Susanne Fuchs and Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 37
N2  - This paper presents preliminary results of a phonetic and phonological study of the Ntcheu dialect of Chichewa spoken by Al Mtenje (one of the co-authors). This study confirms Kanerva's (1990) work on Nkhotakota Chichewa showing that phonological re-phrasing is the primary cue to information structure in this language. It expands on Kanerva's work in several ways. First, we show that focus phrasing has intonational correlates, namely, the manipulation of downdrift and pause. Further, we show that there is a correlation between pitch prominence and discourse prominence at the left and right periphery which conditions dislocation to these positions. Finally, we show that focus and syntax are not the only factors which condition phonological phrasing in Chichewa.
KW  - Intonation <Linguistik>
KW  - Phonologie
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Satz
KW  - Chewa-Sprache
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30919
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309199
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/192.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 37
SP  - 167
EP  - 186
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -