Prosody and Syntax
Functional trade-off of prosody and syntax in question marking?
... It seems an attractive idea that each of these sentence types should be redundantly signalled by prosodic means. Questions are almost universally marked by some high-pitched element in the sentence melody which would ...
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La structuration prosodique et les relations syntaxe/ prosodie dans le discours politique (Prosodic Structuring and the Syntax Prosody Relationship in Political Speech) [in French]
... the Syntax-Prosody Relationship in Political Speech Studies on the prosodic structure of French recognize the existence of different types of prosodic ...the syntax – despite the difference between ...
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The Syntax Semantics Prosody Interface in Legislative Language
... the syntax-prosody interface and the information ...that syntax is responsible for base meaning and while prosody highlights a part or parts of that ...
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Prosody, syntax, and pragmatics: insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
... spoken syntax, no true syntactic dependency would hold across different IUs or ...since prosody is the first means to convey the illocution in addition to the informational relation that holds between its ...
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oa Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics - At the interface of syntax and prosody : differentiating left dislocated and tripartite verbless clauses in Biblical Hebrew - beyond Germanic and Africa - puzzles ancient and modern
... The analysis by Holmstedt and Jones (2014) attempted to distinguish tripartite verbless clauses from left dislocated verbless clauses by examining both the syntax and the semantics/pragmatics of the construction ...
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What Sort of Trees Do We Speak? A Computational Model of the Syntax Prosody Interface in Tokyo Japanese
... Some are simultaneous equations in the reals, whose solutions represent the pitch level of phonetic objects - high and low tones.. This paper presents an alternative view in which phonet[r] ...
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Prosody, Syntax and Parsing
... By phonetically ambiguous sentences, we mean sentences that consist of the same string of phones, i.e.,that suprasegmental rather than segmental information is the basis for the distinct[r] ...
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Form ≠ Function: The independence of prosody and action
... Curl (2006) is another analysis respecting the separation between grammatical form and function. This work examines the different syntactic forms used to make offers in a corpus of telephone calls, and shows how the ...
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The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker’s dialect
... Dialect entails regional variation on various linguistic levels including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon (Petyt 1980). It is an indexical property that is encoded in everyday language ...
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An Automatic Prosody Tagger for Spontaneous Speech
... Speech prosody is known to be central in advanced communication ...speech prosody, so far, no sufficiently large, well-annotated prosody material has been created to support empirical studies and ...
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Prosody and Quantifier Float in Japanese
... (Figure 2(b)). Hence, this example can be analyzed as a “con- tinuation-fall” contour, presumably reflecting the speaker’s in- tentions with regard to the theme-rheme articulation of his/her utterance (Ladd, 1996). ...
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Gesture Theory is Linguistics: On Modelling Multimodality as Prosody
... in prosody over the past two decades, partly from the traditional linguistic perspective that the ‘music of speech’ is an important indicator of the structure of spoken utterances and of their status as speech ...
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Style in Performance: The Prosody of Poetic Recitation
... treated syntax and intonation, while Sinclair's work essentially concerned prolongation, as did the work - acknowledgedly drawn on by Cureton - o f Smith (1968) on poetic ...
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Ritual Syntax
... Frits Staal developed a theory of ritual in the late 1970s that is well-known to ritual studies scholars, though consistently misunderstood. Most attention has focused on Staal's claim that rituals are meaningless, since ...
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The autonomy of syntax
... English syntax/grammar has changed suggests that children may not have acquired English to a final/steady stage; a conclusion which is problematic for a formalist view of ...
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Syntax for free: representing syntax with binding using parametricity
... pure syntax to embed the computational power of System F in abstract syntax ...abstract syntax example from the previous section already demonstrates this in action: the ν → α constructor for free ...
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The syntax of French
... Clausal architecture is divided into three broad domains. The lowest is the thematic VP*. The middle domain, traditionally labelled inflection phrase (IP, headed by INFL ), encodes the inflectional properties of verbs ...
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On the Nature of Syntax
... A relation between individuals may constitute a phase and induce movement (recursion). This means that the core syntactic representations do not necessarily require a verb. The argument-centered logic of minimal ...
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The syntax of Complementisers
... absence of subject obviation depends on the type of chain formed between I and C, or in other words on the properties of the C and I system: coreference is possible when there is I-to-C [r] ...
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Syntax in the 21th century Reflections on The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax
... Giuseppe Longbardi and Giuseppina Silvestri (Chapter 7) review some aspects of the syntax of noun phrases, and mostly focus on the argument structure and its syntactic and morphosyntactic realization. The approach ...
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