Universal 384:
- Original
- If in a language topic-comment structure is coded by intonation, then primary stress always falls inside the focus.
- Standardized
- IF topic-comment structure is coded by intonation, THEN primary stress always falls inside the focus.
- Keywords
- topic, comment, intonation, focus
- Domain
- syntax, prosodic phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- a sample of 30 languages, see Gundel 1988: 210
- Source
- Gundel 1988: 232
- Counterexamples