Speaker: Shin Ishihara
\nTitle: Japanese Focus Prosody Revisited: Freeing Focus from Prosodic Phrasing
\nTime: Thurs 5\/5, 11am-12pm, 32-D461 ***NOTE SPECIAL DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION<\/P><\/p>\n
\nThis talk revisits empirical and theoretical problems of focus prosody
\nin Japanese, and proposes a new analysis. Contrary to the widely
\naccepted assumption that focus directly or indirectly modifies
\nprosodic phrasing, various studies have shown that prosodic boundaries
\nremain unchanged when a focus is added to a sentence. It is proposed
\nthat phonetic effects of focus (F0-rise on the focused word, and
\nreduction in the post-focal areas) result from manipulations of
\nmetrical prominences (addition of focal prominence on the focused word
\nand deletion of head prominences in the post-focal area) that have no
\neffect on prosodic boundaries. In order to allow prominence
\nmanipulation while keeping prosodic phrasing intact, two modifications
\nare made to one of the widely accepted Optimality-Theoretic analyses
\nof focus prosody. First, the syntax-prosody alignment constraint will
\nbe ranked higher, which allows it to dictate the location of prosodic
\nboundaries. Second, metrical culminativity (one metrical prominence
\nper prosodic constituent) is treated as a violable constraint, and it
\nis proposed that this constraint is low-ranked in Japanese. As a
\nresult, Japanese allows multi-headed phrases (when focus adds a
\nprominence), as well as headless prosodic phrases (when focus deletes
\npost-focal prominences).
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