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Tis paper reports the results of a study on the prosodic marking of broad and contrastive focus in three language varieties of which two are in contact: bilingual Peruvian Spanish, Quechua and Peninsu...
Focus Presuppositions
focus presupposition alternative semantics presupposition projection givennes
2015/8/7
This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and
addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential
presuppostion. Presuppostion projection behavior in certain examples
a...
DURATION MODIFICATION OF CONTRASTIVE FOCUS PRECEDED BY FOCUS ADVERBS IN STANDARD CHINESE
Contrastive focus Duration Focus adverb Standard Chinese
2015/5/21
This paper examines the duration modification of contrastive focus among lexical tones in Standard
Chinese where focus co-occurs with focus adverbs. Focus is assigned to the first syllable of mo no m...
Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir
Notional mood Realis Irrealis Focus Information structure Event semantics Tundra Yukaghir
2015/5/5
The nature and the typological validity of the categories ‘realis’ and ‘irrealis’ has been a matter of intensive debate. In this paper we analyse the realis/irrealis dichotomy in Tundra Yukaghir (isol...
The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis
interpretation-based category cross-linguistic analysis
2015/4/24
Focus is regularly treated as a cross-linguistically stable category that is merely manifested by different structural means in different languages, such that a common focus feature may be realised th...
The Interface Between Language and Attention: Prosodic Focus Marking Recruits a General Attention Network in Spoken Language Comprehension
attention network FMRI information structure pitch accent sentence processing
2015/4/24
In spoken language, pitch accent can mark certain information as focus, whereby more attentional resources are allocated to the focused information. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, this s...
Reversing the Direction of Time: Does the Visibility of Spatial Representations of Time Shape Temporal Focus?
metaphor space-time mappings temporal focus language and thought
2015/4/24
While people around the world mentally represent time in terms of space, there is substantial cross-cultural variability regarding which temporal constructs are mapped onto which parts in space. Do pa...
A quantitative investigation of the prosody of Verum Focus in Italian
Italian Verum focus prosody functional data analysis
2015/4/10
In this study we present a preliminary investigation of the
prosodic marking of Verum focus (VF) in Italian, which is
said to be realized with a pitch accent on the finite verb (e.g.
A: Paul has...
Intonational Marking of Focus in Different Word Orders in German Children
German Children Different Word Orders
2015/4/10
It has been argued in the linguistic literature that focus can highlight new or contrastive
information (Kiss, 1998; Krifka, 2008). Moreover, focus may range from having narrow scope over one
cons...
Is there really an asymmetry in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping?
Accentuation Focus Asymmetry Production Comprehension
2015/4/9
This article aims to clarify misunderstandings over the relation between production and comprehension in the acquisition of the focus-to-accentuation mapping and shed new light on this issue on the ba...
Intonational encoding of focus in Toulousian French
Intonational encoding Toulousain French
2015/4/9
Previous studies on focus marking in French have shown that post-focus deaccentuation, phrasing and phonetic cues like peak height and duration are employed to encode narrow focus but tonal patterns a...
Young children’s sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions
Young children’s sensitivity given information predicate-focus questions
2015/4/8
In two studies we investigated 2-year-old children’s answers to predicate-focus questions depending on the preceding context. Children were presented with a successive series of short video clips show...
It will be shown that verbs can be missing in predicative sentences by using the data from Chinese. Copula-less sentences in Chinese are subject to ‘Generalized Anchoring Principle’ (GAP), which requi...
FOCUS AND DAK IN CANTONESE
FOCUS DAK CANTONESE
2015/1/19
This article examines various properties of the focus operator dak in Cantonese. The focus operator dak can occur in two positions in Cantonese: a postverbal position and a preverbal position. In this...
Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus
prosody, ocus association givenness
2014/11/24
Three factors that have been argued to influence the prosody of
an utterance are (i) which constituents encode discourse-salient
information; (ii) which constituents are contrastive in that th...