Workshop on Topic, Focus and Intonation, Santa Barbara, CA, July 20-21, 2001

主题、焦点和语调研讨会，加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉，2001 年 7 月 20-21 日

• 批准号: 0104212
• 负责人: Matthew Gordon
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-15 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0104212&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Topic; Focus; Intonation; Santa

Recent work in syntax and semantics has yielded dramatic developments in the depth and cross-linguistic breadth of our understanding of the role of topic and focus in language. At the same time, there has been increased interest among phoneticians and phonologists in the cross-linguistic study of intonation. One area of intonation which has proven to be a rich yet relatively understudied area of research is focus and topic. Studies of various languages have indicated that utterances involving a focused or topicalized element are typically associated with intonational properties different from utterances without any focused or topicalized elements, e.g. increased pitch range, specialized tonal configurations, different durational characteristics. These studies suggest a close link between differences in prosody and the kinds of differences in meaning associated with various kinds of topicalization and focus.Nevertheless despite recent advances in the study of intonational properties of topic and focus, there is ample room for further advancing our cross-linguistic knowledge of the interaction between the phonetics and phonology of intonation and the syntax and semantics of topicalization and focus. In particular, increased interaction between syntacticians, semanticists, phonologists and phoneticians promises to yield important progress in the study of intonational correlates of the meanings associated with topicalization and focus. A workshop on Topic, Focus and Intonation will be held at the 2001 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. In this workshop, we hope to explore further the effects of various kinds of topicalization and focus on intonation. It is especially hoped that the workshop will lay the groundwork for future collaborative efforts between linguists devoted to the study meaning and linguistics engaged in the quantitative study of intonation. Both descriptive and theoretical papers on any aspects of the relationship between intonation, on the one hand, and topic and/or focus, on the other hand, are welcome. Papers may deal with intonational aspects of topic and/or focus in any language, whether relatively well-studied or relatively underdocumented.

最近语法和语义学方面的工作在我们对主题和焦点在语言中的作用的理解的深度和跨语言广度方面取得了巨大的发展。与此同时，语音学家和音系学家对语调的跨语言研究越来越感兴趣。语调的一个领域已被证明是一个丰富但相对较少研究的领域，那就是焦点和主题。对各种语言的研究表明，涉及集中或主题化元素的话语通常与不带任何集中或主题化元素的话语（例如，“”）相关的语调属性相关。增加的音高范围、专门的音调配置、不同的持续时间特征。这些研究表明，韵律差异和与各种主题化和焦点相关的意义差异之间存在着密切的联系。尽管如此，尽管主题和焦点的语调特性研究最近取得了进展，但仍有足够的空间进一步推进我们对语调的语音学和音韵学与主题化和焦点的句法和语义之间相互作用的跨语言知识。特别是，句法学家、语义学家、音系学家和语音学家之间的互动增加，有望在与主题化和焦点相关的意义的语调相关性的研究中取得重要进展。关于主题、焦点和语调的研讨会将在加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉市的 2001 年美国语言学会夏季学院举行。在本次工作坊中，我们希望进一步探讨各种话题化的效果，并关注语调。特别希望本次研讨会能够为致力于研究意义的语言学家和从事语调定量研究的语言学家之间的合作奠定基础。关于语调与主题和/或焦点之间关系的任何方面的描述性和理论性论文都是受欢迎的。论文可以涉及任何语言的主题和/或焦点的语调方面，无论是研究相对充分还是记录相对较少。