Resumen de Post-focus prosodic phrase boundaries in Tokyo Japanese: asymmetric behavior of an f0 cue and domain-final lengthening

Mariko Sugahara

• The present study shows an asymmetric behaviour between an F0 cue and a durational cue in a post-FOCUS part of an utterance in Tokyo Japanese. Though F0 resetting which marks the left edge of a Major Phonological Phrase is missing at the left edge of a post-FOCUS clause boundary, word-final lengthening which marks the right edge of an Intonational Phrase is retained there. Based on this observation, Headless Post-FOCUS IP Structure is proposed, and such prosodic structure is argued to be compatible with not only the facts obtained in this study but also the theory of FOCUS and prosodic prominence