Towards a typology of focus realization
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Chapter 8 ‘Towards a Typology of Focus Realization’ by Daniel Büring presents a first attempt to formulate a cross‐linguistic theory of focus realization, that is, of how different languages express focusing. By far not all languages mark focused constituents via pitch accent placement, the way Germanic languages do. Rather, focusing is variously reflected in prosodic phrasing, constituent ordering, via special focus morphemes, and perhaps in some cases, not at all. The chapter explores the hypothesis that there is still something systematic to be said about focus realization, that is, that there is a common analytical apparatus that can capture the cross‐linguistic variation, based on the Prominence Theory of Focus Realization.
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Cross-linguistic studies show that focusing is often marked by insertion of a prosodic boundary immediately in front of the focused constituent in SOV languages.
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- Authors
- Büring, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Büring, Daniel
- ORCID
- Büring, Daniel
- Venue
- Information Structure
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2009-10-29
- Pages
- 177-205
- OpenAlex
- W2501972551
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 31.89
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- cross-linguistic variation, pitch accent, prosodic phrasing, constituent ordering, Germanic languages
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