Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Journal / Book Title
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Abstract
Semantic theory predicts four different focus configurations for a pair of adjacent words: early, late, broad and double focus. We report on a production study which confirms that speakers make a significant, though non-obligatory, distinction between the four categories. The distinction is observed in yes/no question and so cannot be associated with a specific intonational tune. The results also fail to support theories of focus projection and uniquely syntagmatic models of prominence.
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
ISSN 2412-0669
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Howell, Jonathan, "Focus Placement on Adjacent Words in Yes/No Questions" (2015). Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 4.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/linguistics-facpubs/4
Rights
The Proceedings of ICPhS 2015 are posted here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Published Citation
Howell, J. (2015). Focus Placement on Adjacent Words in Yes/No Questions. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4.