An alternative explanation could therefore be related to how focus marking interacts with pre-existing prosodic boundaries, or else the tendency for boundaries to be strengthened at specific locations as a result of focus Finally, we found that the classifier did not pattern with respect to focus in the same way across the three acoustic measures.
its duration was not affected by focus condition, but it showed a higher mean F0 and greater intensity in the Num-Focus and NP-Focus conditions as compared to Noun-Focus.