Focus, phrase length, and the distribution of phrase-initial rises in French

• Main Authors: German, James, D'Imperio, Mariapaola
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107451; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25513; http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100207.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study addresses the relationship between information structure and intonation in French. More specifically, it tests whether phrase-initial rises (LHi) are associated with the left edge of contrastively focused constituents in wh-interrogatives. Since LHi distribution has also been correlated...