Prosodic phrasing and focus productions in Greek

This is an experimental study of tonal correlates of prosodic phrasing and focus production in Greek. The results indicate: (1) the tonal correlates of phrasing are a rising tonal command at phrase boundaries and a deaccentuation of the preboundary lexical stress; (2) the tonal correlates of focus are a local tonal range expansion aligned with the stressed syllable of the last lexical unit in focus and a global tonal range compression, which is most evident for the speech material after focus; (3) phrasing and focus have significant interactions, according to which the phrasing tonal command is suppressed as a function of focus production at the same linguistic domain.