Author: Elisabeth O. SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
On Prosodic Structure and Its Relation to Syntactic Structure
Author: Elisabeth O. SelkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Author: Marcel den DikkenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
On Prosodic Structure and Its Relations to Syntactic Structure
Author: Elisabeth O. SelkirkIntonation and Prosodic Structure
Author: Caroline FéryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.
Prosodic Phonology
Author: Marina NesporPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110977796
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is now available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic - even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic constituents (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and provides evidence for each one from numerous languages. Prosodic Phonology also includes a chapter in which experimental psycholinguistic data support the proposed hierarchy. A perceptual study provides evidence that prosodic constituent structure - not syntactic constituent structure - predicts whether listeners are able to disambiguate different types of ambiguous sentences. A chapter on the phonology of poetic meter examines portions of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is demonstrated that the constituents proposed for spoken language also make interesting predictions about literary metrical patterns. Prosodic Phonology is an important reference not only for phonologists, but for all linguists interested in the issue of interfaces among the components of grammar. It is also a basic resource for psycholinguists and cognitive scientists working on linguistic perception and language acquisition.
The Structure of Spoken Language
Author: Philippe MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107036186
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).
Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure
Author: Anthony FoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198237855
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and learning, expressed in waythat will be accessible to all linguists from advanced undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers. The last substantial overview was published over 20 years ago. Since then the subject has been transformed by linked advances in phonological and phonetic theory and accoustic technology. This bookwill interest phonologists, phoneticians, and researchers in related applied fields such as speech pathology and speech synthesis.
Prosody in Syntactic Encoding
Author: Gerrit KentnerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110651416
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure? A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form. The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept “intonational morpheme” (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.
The Phonology-Syntax Connection
Author: Sharon InkelasPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226381015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This collection of papers deals with the inter relatedness of syntax and phonology and, more generally, with the issue of interaction among the components of linguistic structure.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
Author: Carlos GussenhovenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198832230
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 957
Book Description
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.