Parentheticals in spoken English: the syntax-prosody relation

by Dehé, Nicole

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Parentheticals in spoken English : the syntax-prosody relation / Nicole Dehé

Summary

"Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with relevant theoretical work at the syntax-prosody interface. It offers a detailed prosodic analysis of six types of parentheticals - full parenthetical clauses, non-restrictive relative clauses, nominal appositions, comment clauses, reporting verbs, and question tags, all taken from the spoken part of the British Component of the International Corpus of English. To date, the common assumption is that by default, parentheticals are prosodically phrased separately, an assumption which, as this study shows, is not always in line with the predictions made by current prosodic theory. The present study provides new empirical evidence for the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spontaneous and semi-spontaneous spoken English, and offers new implications for a theory of linguistic interfaces"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014
Edition:1. publ

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Univ. Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:IX, 250 Seiten : Diagramme

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521761925, 0521761921
oclc:ocn931498804
LC Classification:P293.35
Dewey Decimal:425

Machine generated contents note: 1. Parentheticals in English: introduction; 2. The syntax and prosody of parentheticals; 3. Parentheticals, intonational phrasing and prosodic theory; 4. Data analysis, results and discussion; 5. Final discussion.

Subjects