Prosody by phase
- 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.
| Author details: | Shinichiro Ishihara |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8391 |
| ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
| ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
| Subtitle (German): | evidence from focus intonation wh-scope correspondence in Japanese |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2004 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2006/09/07 |
| Tag: | Japanese; Multiple Spell-Out; cyclicity; focus intonation; phase; prosody; wh-question; wh-scope |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First page: | 77 |
| Last Page: | 119 |
| Source: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 1 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2004) 01 |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
| External remark: | erschienen in: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2004. - (ISIS ; 1) URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8237 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam. |
