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Mingzhen B (2012). Prosody of Focus among Information Structures in Pulaar. Afrikanistik online, Vol. 2012. (urn:nbn:de:0009-10-35281)
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%0 Journal Article %T Prosody of Focus among Information Structures in Pulaar %A Mingzhen, Bao %J Afrikanistik online %D 2012 %V 2012 %N 9 %@ 1860-7462 %F mingzhen2012 %X This paper presents preliminary results of an acoustic study of Futa Tooro, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in the region on the Senegal River. The study explores acoustic correlates of focused subjects, in comparison with unfocused subjects in information structures, in addition to the syntax and verb conjugation system. Focus in Pulaar is referred to as a constituent that introduces new or highlighted information into discourse and that potentially receives contrastive stress (McIntosh 1984). Declarative utterances are examined where subjects are read as nonfocus, informative focus as answers to Wh-questions and contrastive focus as corrections (i.e., negative answers) to Yes/No-questions. Acoustic parameters, such as duration, fundamental frequency and intensity, are examined in terms of focus condition, co-occurrence of emphasis particle ko, and completeness of sentence. The results show that contrastive focus is uttered with longer duration than informative focus and nonfocus subjects. Both contrastive and informative foci have greater intensity than nonfocus. Pitch modification is not significant for focus implementation. Moreover, foci preceded by ko and in complete long sentences have greater intensity than those without the particle or in incomplete short sentences. Examinations on time-normalized intensity and pitch contours indicate that when foci are realized with ko, pitch range is expanded in the focused position and compressed in the post-focal verb domain. %L 490 %K Fokus %K Fulfulde %K Peul %K Prosodie %K Pulaar %U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-10-35281Download
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@Article{mingzhen2012,
author = "Mingzhen, Bao",
title = "Prosody of Focus among Information Structures in Pulaar",
journal = "Afrikanistik online",
year = "2012",
volume = "2012",
number = "9",
keywords = "Fokus; Fulfulde; Peul; Prosodie; Pulaar",
abstract = "This paper presents preliminary results of an acoustic study of Futa Tooro, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in the region on the Senegal River. The study explores acoustic correlates of focused subjects, in comparison with unfocused subjects in information structures, in addition to the syntax and verb conjugation system. Focus in Pulaar is referred to as a constituent that introduces new or highlighted information into discourse and that potentially receives contrastive stress (McIntosh 1984). Declarative utterances are examined where subjects are read as nonfocus, informative focus as answers to Wh-questions and contrastive focus as corrections (i.e., negative answers) to Yes/No-questions. Acoustic parameters, such as duration, fundamental frequency and intensity, are examined in terms of focus condition, co-occurrence of emphasis particle ko, and completeness of sentence. The results show that contrastive focus is uttered with longer duration than informative focus and nonfocus subjects. Both contrastive and informative foci have greater intensity than nonfocus. Pitch modification is not significant for focus implementation. Moreover, foci preceded by ko and in complete long sentences have greater intensity than those without the particle or in incomplete short sentences. Examinations on time-normalized intensity and pitch contours indicate that when foci are realized with ko, pitch range is expanded in the focused position and compressed in the post-focal verb domain.",
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| Bibliographic Citation | Afrikanistik Online, Vol. 2012, Iss. 9 |
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| Title |
Prosody of Focus among Information Structures in Pulaar (eng) |
| Author | Bao Mingzhen |
| Language | eng |
| Abstract | This paper presents preliminary results of an acoustic study of Futa Tooro, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in the region on the Senegal River. The study explores acoustic correlates of focused subjects, in comparison with unfocused subjects in information structures, in addition to the syntax and verb conjugation system. Focus in Pulaar is referred to as a constituent that introduces new or highlighted information into discourse and that potentially receives contrastive stress (McIntosh 1984). Declarative utterances are examined where subjects are read as nonfocus, informative focus as answers to Wh-questions and contrastive focus as corrections (i.e., negative answers) to Yes/No-questions. Acoustic parameters, such as duration, fundamental frequency and intensity, are examined in terms of focus condition, co-occurrence of emphasis particle ko, and completeness of sentence. The results show that contrastive focus is uttered with longer duration than informative focus and nonfocus subjects. Both contrastive and informative foci have greater intensity than nonfocus. Pitch modification is not significant for focus implementation. Moreover, foci preceded by ko and in complete long sentences have greater intensity than those without the particle or in incomplete short sentences. Examinations on time-normalized intensity and pitch contours indicate that when foci are realized with ko, pitch range is expanded in the focused position and compressed in the post-focal verb domain. Der Artikel stellt vorläufige Ergebnisse einer akustischen Untersuchung des Futa Tooro, einem Dialekt des Pulaar vor, der in der Region des Senegalflusses verbreitet ist. Untersucht werden akustische Korrelate von fokussierten Subjekten im Vergleich zu nicht fokussierten. Mit Fokus bezieht man sich im Pulaar auf diejenige Konstituente, die neue oder betonte Information in den Diskurs einführt und die möglicherweise kontrastive Betonung erhält (McIntosh 1984). Deklarative Sätze, deren Subjekte nicht fokussiert werden, informativer Fokus in Antworten auf ja/nein-Fragen und kontrastiver Fokus in Korrekturen (d.h. negierenden Antworten) von Vorannahmen in ja-nein-Fragen werden vergleichend untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass kontrastiver Fokus mit mehr Längung verbunden ist als informativer Fokus und als nicht fokussierte Subjekte. Sowohl kontrastiver als auch informativer Fokus zeigen größere Intensität als nicht fokussierte Subjekte. Die Änderung des Pitch ist dagegen nicht signifikant. Darüber hinaus haben fokussierte Konstituenten, denen in vollständigen langen Sätzen die Partikel ko vorangeht, größere Intensität als solche ohne diese Partikel in vollständigen kurzen Sätzen. Untersuchungen von zeit-normalisierter Intensität und Pitch-Konturen zeigen eine Ausdehnung des Pitch im fokussierten Bereich, falls die Fokussierung von der Partikel ko begleitet wird, während sie im post-fokalen Bereich des Verbs dagegen komprimiert wird. |
| Subject | Fokus, Fulfulde, Peul, Prosodie, Pulaar |
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| DDC | 490 |
| Rights | DPPL |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:0009-10-35281 |
