Caroline Féry
List of John Benjamins publications in which Caroline Féry is involved.
2019 Chapter 8. Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Chapter
This paper sheds light on the conditions for post-focal and post-verbal compression in French canonical sentences. We report on a production experiment, which results suggest that arguments and adjuncts are phrased differently, and that length and information structure only exert a significant… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 17–50 | Chapter
A striking property of Georgian intonation is that focused postverbal material is prosodically separated from the core clause. The challenge of the present study is to assess the external validity of this experimental result by means of a corpus study. Corpus data is known to contain immense… read more
2016 The prosody of Focus and Givenness in Hindi and Indian English Studies in Language 40:2, pp. 302–339 | Article
This paper reports the results of two identical experiments, one in Hindi and one in Indian English, that elicited semi-spontaneous sentences containing a focused agent or a focused patient. The primary aim of the experiments was to investigate the prosodic correlates of information structure in… read more
2014 Final compression in French as a phrasal phenomenon Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. 133–156 | Article
Final compression in French is examined from a theoretical perspective and illustrated with experimental data. In French, only final prosodic domains that are at least the size of a prosodic phrase (Φ-phrase) may be subject to final compression. Prosodic units that are smaller than Φ-phrases, such… read more
2011 Correlates of phrasing in French and German from an experiment with semi-spontaneous speech Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies, Gabriel, Christoph and Conxita Lleó (eds.), pp. 11–41 | Article
Correlates of prosodic phrasing are examined in a comparative study between two languages, German and French. The material was elicited in a production experiment with 30 speakers of German and 20 speakers of French, who were asked to describe orally the spatial arrangement of toy animals on a… read more
2008 Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 123–135 | Article
2007 The prosody of topicalization On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages, Schwabe, Kerstin and Susanne Winkler (eds.), pp. 69–86 | Article
2003 Final Devoicing and the stratification of the lexicon in German The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure, Weijer, Jeroen van de, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 145–169 | Article