@inbook{3422849d1b494ea6b4e9c7e9a3bbe4d2,
title = "The intonation of wh- and yes/no-questions in Tokyo Japanese",
abstract = "The paper reports experimental results on the intonation of wh- and yes/no-questions in Tokyo Japanese, and discusses several implications for the semantic and phonological theories of focus. The intonation of declarative sentences, wh-questions, and yes/no-questions are systematically compared. The results show that the wh-question exhibits an F0-prominence on the wh-phrase, while the yes/no-question exhibits an F0-prominence on the verb. It is claimed that these prominences are both focus-oriented. This proposal fits the standard semantic theory of questions (Hamblin 1973) nicely. Phonological theories of focus prosody in Tokyo Japanese are compared in the light of the results. The interaction of the notions of focus and discourse-newness/givenness are also discussed.",
keywords = "intonation, wh-question, yes/no-questions, Japanese, focus, givenness",
author = "Shinichiro Ishihara",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4_19",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-10105-7",
series = "Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "339–415",
editor = "Chungmin Lee and Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Krifka",
booktitle = "Contrastiveness in information structure, alternatives and scaler implicatures",
address = "Germany",
}