Even second occurrence focus only tastes like egg sandwich
With my Speech Prosody project & presentation done, the end of the semester is finally in sight. I really really like the SOF phenomenon – it covers issues both about the phonetics/phonology interface (is focus marking just a binary, discrete issue, pitch-accented or not pitch-accented? or is it a more gradient effect?) and the phonetics/semantics interface. So I’m really happy to have found this topic. I’ll post my presentation notes and the final paper when this whole thing is wrapped up.
I think I’ll take a break from all this for a few days, though, and focus on semantics for a bit. I have a lot of cool new things to think about.
emma :: May.08.2007 :: misc, semantics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics :: No Comments »