The Realization of Information Focus in Catalan

Answers to wh-questions are the most widespread method elicit information focus. When studying syntax of focus, however, this is problematic because natural answer a wh-question often fragment that only includes This problem has led considerable controversy in literature about position which focus realized, particularly for Spanish, but also Catalan. In order enhance naturalness and reliability question-answer test, we designed an experiment with new elicitation technique (i.e., questions delayed answer) some material inserted between question point participant asked question, so Catalan participants would spontaneously utter full sentence instead fragment, without being explicitly instructed do so. The production was then adapted rating on acceptability preverbal postverbal foci results second study confirm findings experiment: always preferred over both case subjects objects.