Focus and tone
Focus and tone
Author(s): Katharina HartmannSubject(s): Lexis
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: tone (language); intonation (language); focus; pitch accent; prosodic phrasing;
Summary/Abstract: Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category ‘focus’ is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies. In intonation languages, focus is marked by pitch movement, which is also perceived as tone. The present article discusses prosodic focus marking in these two language types.
Journal: Acta Linguistica Hungarica (Since 2017 Acta Linguistica Academica)
- Issue Year: 55/2008
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 415-426
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English