- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure
- Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- Alternative Semantics
- Givenness
- (Contrastive) Topic
- Question-based Models of Information Structure
- Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-)at-issue Meaning
- Information Structure and Presupposition
- Information Structure: A Cartographic Perspective
- Nuclear Stress and Information Structure
- Focus Projection Theories
- Constraint Conflict and Information Structure
- Focus Sensitive Operators
- Quantification and Information Structure
- Contrast: Dissecting an Elusive Information-structural Notion and its Role in Grammar
- Verum Focus
- Predicate Focus
- Information Structure and Discourse Particles
- Ellipsis and Information Structure
- Word Order and Information Structure
- Dislocations and Information Structure
- Discourse-configurationality
- On the Expression of Focus in the Metrical Grid and in the Prosodic Hierarchy
- Focus, Intonation, and Tonal Height
- Second Occurrence Focus
- Information Structure and Language Change
- Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics
- Information Structure and Production Planning
- Information Structure in First Language Acquisition
- Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure
- Corpus Linguistics and Information Structure Research
- Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic
- Syntactic and Prosodic Effects of Information Structure in Romance
- Discourse Functions: The Case of Hungarian
- Information Structure in Modern Greek
- Information Structure in Slavic
- Topic and Focus Marking in Chinese
- Information Structure in Japanese
- Information Structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
- Information Structure in Bantu
- Information Structure in Sign Languages
- References
- Subject Index
- Language Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Abstract and Keywords
A ‘Second Occurrence Focus’ (SOF) is the semantic focus of a focus sensitive operator (like only) which is contextually given. SOF has been claimed to be phonologically unmarked, which poses a problem for association with focus theories assuming a direct relation between focus and pitch accent. This chapter discusses the main semantic-pragmatic accounts of the SOF challenge but also empirical investigations which found that SOF actually is marked by secondary (i.e. non-nuclear) prosodic prominence, providing evidence in favour of association with focus theories. A similar prosodic pattern could be found in semantically and prosodically comparable structures such as cases of implicational bridging. Finally, an outlook on a possible unified approach of the phonological representation of second occurrence expressions is presented which is based on metrical stress.
Keywords: Second Occurrence Focus, pitch accent, secondary prominence, association with focus, focus sensitive operator, givenness, prosody, metrical stress, bridging
Stefan Baumann is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics (Phonetics Department), University of Cologne. His main research interests include prosodic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of information structure, the phonetics and phonology of intonation, the role of prosody in neurocognitive language processing, and multi-layer annotation of spoken language.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure
- Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- Alternative Semantics
- Givenness
- (Contrastive) Topic
- Question-based Models of Information Structure
- Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-)at-issue Meaning
- Information Structure and Presupposition
- Information Structure: A Cartographic Perspective
- Nuclear Stress and Information Structure
- Focus Projection Theories
- Constraint Conflict and Information Structure
- Focus Sensitive Operators
- Quantification and Information Structure
- Contrast: Dissecting an Elusive Information-structural Notion and its Role in Grammar
- Verum Focus
- Predicate Focus
- Information Structure and Discourse Particles
- Ellipsis and Information Structure
- Word Order and Information Structure
- Dislocations and Information Structure
- Discourse-configurationality
- On the Expression of Focus in the Metrical Grid and in the Prosodic Hierarchy
- Focus, Intonation, and Tonal Height
- Second Occurrence Focus
- Information Structure and Language Change
- Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics
- Information Structure and Production Planning
- Information Structure in First Language Acquisition
- Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure
- Corpus Linguistics and Information Structure Research
- Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic
- Syntactic and Prosodic Effects of Information Structure in Romance
- Discourse Functions: The Case of Hungarian
- Information Structure in Modern Greek
- Information Structure in Slavic
- Topic and Focus Marking in Chinese
- Information Structure in Japanese
- Information Structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
- Information Structure in Bantu
- Information Structure in Sign Languages
- References
- Subject Index
- Language Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
