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Focus Structure

Focus Structure is a linguistic construct within information-structure typology that specifies the syntactic and semantic organization of information by marking a particular element as the highlighted or contrastive constituent in discourse, distinguishing it from background or given information.

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A theory of focus interpretation

Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics · 1992 · 3.2K citations

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Basic notions of information structure

Manfred Krifka · Acta Linguistica Hungarica · 2008 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Identificational focus versus information focus

Katalin É. Kiss · Language · 1998 · 1.5K citations

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Acoustic correlates of information structure

Mara Breen, Evelina Fedorenko, Michael Wagner et al. · Language and Cognitive Processes · 2010 · 432 citations · Full text

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Remarks on Holmberg’s Generalization

Anders Holmberg · Studia Linguistica · 1999 · 430 citations

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Authors

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  1. MZ
    Malte Zimmermann

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    7 publications · 892 citations

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  2. KÉ
    Katalin É. Kiss

    ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary

    5 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. MW
    Michael Wagner

    University of Canberra, Australia

    4 publications · 660 citations

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  4. SC
    Silvio Cruschina

    University of Vienna, Austria

    4 publications · 111 citations

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  5. KH
    Katharina Hartmann

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

    4 publications · 284 citations

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Institutions

164

  1. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    2.4K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    952 citations

  5. University of Cologne

    Cologne, Germany

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    845 citations

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    843 citations

  7. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    738 citations

  8. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    262 citations

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  1. Lingua

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Linguistics

    10 publications · 708 citations

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  3. Journal of Semantics

    8 publications · 569 citations

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  4. Language

    8 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. Language and Speech

    7 publications · 622 citations

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