Open AccessCorrection by contrastive focus
Author(s) -
Anita Steube
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.123
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , linguistics , sentence , contrastive analysis , stress (linguistics) , realization (probability) , pitch accent , computer science , natural language processing , prosody , mathematics , philosophy , physics , statistics , optics
'Correction' is the name of a sentence with contrastive focus' the phonological/phonetic realization of which is a single contrastive pitch accent. These sentences predominantly appear in (fictional) dialogues. The first speaker uses grammatical entities against which the next speaker protests with a sentence nearly identical except that it contains a prosodically marked corrective element. This paper makes contrastive focus visible by means of 'KF' (contrastive focus).