Contrastive FOCUS vs. presentational focus: prosodic evidence from right node raising in English
Contrastive FOCUS vs. presentational focus: prosodic evidence from right node raising in English
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对比焦点与表现焦点：来自英语右节点提升的韵律证据
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10.21437/speechprosody.2002-146
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2002
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E. Selkirk
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E. Selkirk
本文报告了英语中对比焦点和表现焦点实体的韵律特性之间的差异，当它们在句子中紧随其后的是表现焦点时。在这种情况下，对比焦点不仅显示了 L+H* 音高重音，而且还显示了随后的语音短语中断，以 L 短语重音和时间脱节为标志。在相同的上下文中，表现焦点显示音高重音 H* 并且没有语音短语中断（没有 L-并且没有脱节）。由于与不同焦点类型相关的韵律差异并不合理地被解释为不同声调语素的实现，因此我建议对比/表示对比存在于界面信息/句法结构本身中，并通过区分两种焦点类型的句法音系界面约束的作用在音系表示中感受到。
This paper reports a difference in English between the prosodic properties of contrastive FOCUS and presentational focus entities when they are immediately followed within the sentence by a presentational focus. In this context, the contrastive FOCUS shows not only a L+H* pitch accent, but also a following phonological phrase break, marked by both a L-phrase accent and temporal disjuncture. In the same context, presentational focus shows a pitch accent H* and no phonological phrase break (no L-and no disjuncture). Since these differences in prosody correlating with different Focus types are not plausibly construed as the realization of distinct tonal morphemes, I suggest that the contrastive/presentational contrast is present in the interface informational/syntactic structure itself, and makes itself felt in the phonological representation through the action of syntax-phonology interface constraints which distinguish the two Focus types.