💡 Interestingly, focus-induced prominence strengthening in Seoul Korean shares many characteristics with domain-initial strengthening. This includes an LH rise associated with the focused element, even without the presence of a prosodic boundary. 5/8

📈 In our study, phrase-initial focus results in clear tonal expansion, but in phrase-medial and crucially in phrase-final positions, we see subtle adjustments to the intonational contour without evidence for rephrasing, challenging the expected patterns for focus. 4/8

🔍 We examined Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language, focusing on how narrow corrective focus affects tonal distribution in short 5-syllable Intonational Phrases (IPs). These short IPs were specifically chosen to minimize the likelihood of the formation of multiple accentual phrases. 2/8

🔍 We examined Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language, focusing on how narrow corrective focus affects tonal distribution in short 5-syllable Intonational Phrases (IPs). These short IPs were specifically chosen to minimize the likelihood of the formation of multiple accentual phrases. 2/7

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