Lee, A;
Xu, Y;
(2018)
Conditional realisation of post-focus compression in Japanese.
In:
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018.
(pp. pp. 216-219).
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA): Poznań, Poland.
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Abstract
The typological feature ‘post-focus fo range compression’ (PFC) is often considered an all-or-nothing phenomenon, being completely absent in -PFC languages but applied across-the-board in +PFC languages. This paper presents production data from Japanese and shows that, within a language, the realisation of PFC can be conditional upon lexical prosody. We further argue that this condition itself is language-specific, by comparing Japanese PFC with that in other +PFC languages. It is hoped that these results will further our understanding of the nature of focus intonation across languages.
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