An Alternative Approach on Focus Prosody

An Alternative Approach on Focus Prosody

This paper attempts to propose a framework in which the procedure of processing focus-prosody can be captured. Traditional NSR and FPR or phase-based rules like SSR and FSR need elaboration to capture the various characteristics of focus-prosody. Following the Focus structure suggested in Selkirk (1984) and modifying the model suggested in Marantz (1997), we argue that the component of Morphology plays a crucial role in determining the formal properties of focus; prosody, word order variations (p-movement (Zubizaretta 1998)) and Late Insertion in some languages.

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Ⅱ. Traditional analyses

Ⅲ. Phase - based analysis

Ⅳ. Morphologist approach

Ⅴ. Concluding remarks

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