This paper is made up of two parts: the flrst part continues the theoretical investigations on Information Structure (IS), linguistic, and computational approaches suitable to provide solutions to the prosody prediction problem of Implicit Contrastive Focus (ICF) concept, introduced in our previous papers. ICF is meant to be the particular case but also the counterpart of the classical category of contrastive Focus at the flnite clause level, as the second item in the Background-Focus pair of IS dimension. The classical contrastive Focus, which we called Explicit Contrastive Focus (ECF), is the intonationally F marked entity introduced by overt lexical contrastive markers. ICF labels the situations where contrastive intonational focusation occurs but without the lexical presence of the contrastive Focus markers! The only and main device to introduce the contrastive focusation on certain constituents is the syntactic dislocation from their speciflc positions in the Systemic Ordering (SO) of syntacticsemantic roles for the Romanian flnite clause. The ICF problem means to obtain reliable algorithms and procedures on the Discourse-Prosody interface in order to accurately predict the contrastive Focus distribution within the Romanian ICF-type afflrmative flnite clause. The second, applicative part of the paper describes algorithms for solving the ICF problem for Romanian, trying to exploit the typically dislocated constituents in the flnite clause and to predict their Prosodic Prominence (PP). Procedures for the development of intonational-prosodic patterns assigned to the ICF distribution by certain ICF estimation schemes are developed and tested for a balanced set of Romanian ICF-type a‐rmative flnite clauses. c
['Neculai Curteanu', 'Mihai Alex Moruz', 'Cecilia Bolea', 'Andrei Scutelnicu']
Recognition and Prediction for Implicit Contrastive Focus in Romanian