Year: 2002
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: It is well-known that focus may have a prosodic reflection in various languages, affecting prosodic phrasing, prominence and/or intonation.However, the issue whether there is any relationship among the different kinds of prosodic marking remains unclear.This paper presents a detailed examination of the prosody of focus in European Portuguese.It is shown that there are no phrasing effects of focus; by contrast, phrasal stress and tonal events play a crucial role in the expression of focus.Implications of these findings for a cross-linguistic understanding of focus prosody are explored, namely it is argued that the prosodic reflexes are not universal, or arbitrary.
Source: Speech prosody
Author: Sónia Frota
Institution: University of Lisbon
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W16487692