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Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Hardcover)
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Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Hardcover)
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten
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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.
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