Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation–Wh-scope correspondence in Japanese

  • Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.

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Author:Shinichiro Ishihara
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112513
URL:http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis01_3ishihara.pdf
Parent Title (German):Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 1
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2004
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:Japanese; Multiple Spell-Out; cyclicity; focus intonation; phase; prosody; wh-question; wh-scope
Page Number:43
First Page:77
Last Page:119
Source:Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 1, 2004, 77-120 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis01_3ishihara.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:207972095
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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