Prosodic focus in Vietnamese

  • This paper reports on pilot work on the expression of Information Structure in Vietnamese and argues that Focus in Vietnamese is exclusively expressed prosodically: there are no specific focus markers, and the language uses phonology to express intonational emphasis in similar ways to languages like English or German. The exploratory data indicates that (i) focus is prosodically expressed while word order remains constant, (ii) listeners show good recoverability of the intended focus structure, and (iii) that there is a trading relationship between several phonetic parameters (duration, f0, amplitude) involved to signal prosodic (acoustic) emphasis.

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Author:Stefanie Jannedy
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112502
URL:http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis08_8jannedy.pdf
URL:http://978-3-939469-72-8
Parent Title (German):Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Dipper, Stefanie (Herausgeber) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 8
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:Vietnamese; focus; information structure; perception (statement-question matching)
Page Number:31
First Page:200
Last Page:230
Source:Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 8, 2007, 209-230 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis08_8jannedy.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:207971382
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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