The intonation of topic and focus
| Autor: | Bernard Caron, Cécile Lux, Stefano Manfredi, Christophe Pereira |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire (LLACAN), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LAngues et Cultures du Nord de L'Afrique et Diasporas (LACNAD EA 4092), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Mettouchi, Amina, Vanhove, Martine, Caubet, Dominique, ANR-06-CORP-0018,CORPAFROAS,Corpus Oral en langues Afroasiatiques : Analyse Prosodique et Morphosyntaxique(2006), Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique - Nigeria (IFRA-Nigeria), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR135-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages. The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages Mettouchi, Amina; Vanhove, Martine; Caubet, Dominique. Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages. The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, 68 (68), John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.63-115, 2015, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9789027203762 HAL Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages. The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.63-115, 2015, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 978-90-272-0376-2 978-90-272-6889-1 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/scl.68.03car |
| Popis: | International audience; A follow-up of the CorpAfroAs project, this paper presents a typologically-oriented study of the intonation of Topic and Focus in four Afroasiatic languages (Zaar, Tamasheq, Juba Arabic and Tripoli Arabic), in relation to their phonological and information structures. The different prosodic systems represented in the study - i.e. the demarcative accent system of Berber, the lexical stress system of Tripoli Arabic; the pitch accent system of Juba Arabic; and the tone system of Zaar - give ground to the study of the correlation between these prosodic systems and their intonation structures. More particularly, how declination, wich seems to be a universal of the intonation of declarative sentences, interacts with other sentence types, such as Yes/No-Questions, WH-Questions, Exclamations, etc. Likewise, the paper explores the correlation between the prosodic systems and the intonational exponents of Topic and Focus. The paper starts by setting up the concepts and typological frame used for the study. Then, it presents a case study of the four languages, examining their prosodic systems, and the prosodic exponents of topic and focus. Finally, the paper compares the four systems, drawing conclusions from a typoligical point of view. A general rule seems to emerge from the study: lack of a specific intonation pattern for a specific intonation structure is supplemented by morpho-syntactic marking. In other words, the more a structure relies on morpho-syntax, the less it relies on intonation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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