Simard, Candide and Lacheret-Dujour, Anne and Oyelere, Abiola (2019) Broad and Narrow focus marking in Naija(Nigerian Pidgin): the role of prosody. [Conference Proceedings]
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This paper presents an investigation of the prosodic
realisation of narrow and broad focus in Naija, a postcreole language of Nigeria spoken by 100 million
people. As other West-African English lexifier
pidgins, it has limited morphological complexity,
flexible word order, and content words receive a +H
pitch. Previous analyses of annotated spontaneous
speech recordings identified two types of perceived
prominences in Naija: a pitch peak (PPROM) and an
extended duration (DPROM). This study identifies
two focus conditions (narrow and broad) and seeks to
establish whether they correlate with these perceived
prominences. It was found that narrow focus uses any
of two strategies: (1) the element in focus can occur
anywhere in the IU, and coincides with the durational
prominence, or (2) a na (copula) + focus element
construction, which then receives the pitch
prominence associated with first position in the IU.
Broad focus, however, receives no prosodic marking.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > School of Language, Arts and Media |
| Depositing User: | Candide Simard |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2024 01:30 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2024 01:30 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14308 |
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