Beyong pitch: Exploring Duration, Intensity and Silence in Japanese Focus Marking

Building on Jun’s prosodic typology (2005, 2014), this study examines how head and edge languages differ in their strategies for expressing focus. While head languages like English rely on pitch expansion in focus and post-focal compression, edge languages like Japanese are thought to emphasize bou...

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Main Authors: Jun Nagao, Marta Ortega-Llebaria
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2024-12-01
Series:Phonica
Online Access:https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/phonica/article/view/47541
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