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Focus Marking and Prosodic Boundary Strength in French
Amandine Michelas1, James S German2
1Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Phonetica
|July 2, 2019
Summary
French prosody marks focus by strengthening prosodic boundaries. This study found that the right edge of a narrow-focus constituent aligns with an intermediate phrase boundary, suggesting a minimum prosodic domain size constraint.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Prosody
Background:
- French prosody does not reliably mark focus size using pitch accent.
- Existing theories suggest prosodic boundary distribution plays a role, but this cue is weak.
- The study investigates alternative strategies for marking focus constituents in French.
Purpose of the Study:
- To determine if prosodic boundary strength at the right edge marks contrastive focus in French.
- To explore how focus alignment interacts with prosodic domains.
Main Methods:
- An interactive production task was used to elicit utterances.
- Target words were placed in six focus and syntactic contexts.
- Prosodic boundary strength was analyzed at specific locations.
Main Results:
- Accentual phrase boundaries in all-focus contexts shifted to intermediate phrase boundaries at the right edge of narrow-focus constituents.
- Intermediate phrase boundaries in all-focus contexts remained unchanged under narrow focus.
Conclusions:
- Focus constituents in French appear constrained to align with a minimum prosodic domain size (intermediate phrase).
- French does not employ a general strategy of prosodic enhancement to mark focus.
- Prosodic boundary strength, specifically intermediate phrase boundaries, plays a key role in marking focus in French.
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