Open Advanced Search

Log in
Enterprise Plans
Free Trial

Log in
Free Trial
Enterprise Plans
Browse
Features
Pricing

DeepDyve

Advanced Search

show/hide query preview

With all of the words or DOIs:

DeepDyve's default query mode: search by keyword or DOI.

With the exact phrase:

Require these words, in this exact order. Do not surround your terms in double-quotes ("") in this field.

With at least one of the words:

Find any of these words, separated by spaces

Without the words:

Exclude each of these words, separated by spaces

With words in the article title:

Search for these terms only in the title of an article

Published between the years:

With the following authors:

Most effective as: LastName, First Name or Lastname, FN

With words in the journal name:

Search for articles published in journals where these words are in the journal name

Reset filters

Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

DeepDyve requires Javascript to function. Please enable Javascript on your browser to continue.

Topic and Focus

Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Book Series (volume 82)

Editors: Lee, Chungmin; Gordon, Matthew; Büring, Daniel

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4796-1

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4797-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2007

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

LitStream

Chapter 1Constraints on Intonational Prominence of Focalized Constituents

Elordieta, Gorka

Pages: 1 –22

[Across languages, in narrow contrastive focus constructions one or more cues (morphological, syntactic, intonational) are used by speakers in order to express the intended meaning correctly, singling out the focalized element or constituent from the rest of the elements in the sentence. However,...
LitStream

Chapter 2Polish Narrow Focus Constructions

Eschenberg, Ardis

Pages: 23 –40

[Polish, a western Slavic language, is a so-called ‘free word order’ or ‘scrambling’ language. SVO ordering has been posited to be basic for Polish (Szober 1963), and a study by Klemensiewicz (1949) found the majority of isolated sentences to conform to this ordering. However, other constituent...
LitStream

Chapter 3Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian

Gil, David

Pages: 41 –68

[What kinds of meanings may be expressed by intonation? There is general agreement that intonation may convey emotions, and, related to this, speakers’ attitudes towards the propositional content of utterances. It is also well-known that certain intonation contours may be associated with specific...
LitStream

Chapter 4The Intonational Realization of Contrastive Focus in Chickasaw

Gordon, Matthew

Pages: 69 –82

[While the realization of focus in languages which express focus either syntactically or prosodically or through a combination of both prosody and syntax has been studied relatively extensively, e.g. English (Beckman and Pierrehumbert 1986), Korean (Cho 1990, Jun 1993), Chichewa (Kanerva 1990),...
LitStream

Chapter 5Types of Focus in English

Gussenhoven, Carlos

Pages: 83 –100

[This chapter has two aims. First, section 1.0 intends to shows that the way pitch accents express information structure in English is subject to structural constraints. This view is contrasted with one in which the pitch accent directly signals the information status of the word it occurs on....
LitStream

Chapter 6The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue

Hedberg, Nancy; Sosa, Juan M.

Pages: 101 –120

[Our research addresses the interface between meaning and prosody. In particular, it concerns the way intonation plays a part in the interpretation of an utterance. for example, we are concerned with the extent to which a falling versus a falling-rising intonation at the end of an utterance or an...
LitStream

Chapter 7Perceiving Focus

Krahmer, Emiel; Swerts, Marc

Pages: 121 –137

[Many linguists approach intonational matters from a purely speaker-oriented perspective1. For instance, in different studies, in as far as these are empirical in nature, evidence for particular tonal distinctions is often solely based on acoustic analyses of fundamental frequency (F0) traces....
LitStream

Chapter 8The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers

Krifka, Manfred

Pages: 139 –150

[In Krifka (2001) I argued that three distinct phenomena of question semantics – alternative questions like Did it rain or not?, multiple constituent questions with pair-list readings like Who bought what? and the focus patterns of answers to constituent questions – cannot be dealt with...
LitStream

Chapter 9Contrastive (Predicate) Topic, Intonation, and Scalar Meanings

Lee, Chungmin

Pages: 151 –175

[In this chapter I will consider Contrastive Topic (CT), Contrastive Predicate Topic (CPT) and Focus in information structure and their relations to intonation and meaning, as I have attempted to account for in a series of papers on related topics1. Particularly, I will try to see the...
LitStream

Chapter 10Prosody and Scope Interpretations of the Topic Marker ‘Wa’ in Japanese

Nakanishi, Kimiko

Pages: 177 –193

[It is well known that intonational patterns influence pragmatic interpretations in various languages (Bolinger 1965, Halliday 1967, Jackendoff 1972, Lambrecht 1994, Hirst and Di Cristo 1998, Ladd 1998, and Steedman 2000; McCawley 1968, Poser 1984, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988, for Japanese in...

results per page

Browse All eBooks

Features

Search and discover articles on DeepDyve, PubMed, and Google Scholar
Read the full-text of open access and premium content
Organize articles with folders and bookmarks
Collaborate on and share articles and folders

Info

Pricing
Enterprise Plans
Browse Journals & Topics
About DeepDyve

Help

Help
Publishers
Contact Us

Sign up for your 14-Day Free Trial Now!

Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.

System error. Please try again!

Continue with Facebook

By signing up, you agree to DeepDyve’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Already have an account? Log in

Save Article to Bookmarks

Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.

To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.

Subscribe to Journal Email Alerts

To subscribe to email alerts, please log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.

Follow a Journal

To get new article updates from a journal on your personalized homepage, please log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.

Our policy towards the use of cookies

All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.

cookie policy