"During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to 'smash the four olds': old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted 'We want to see Chairman Mao, ' they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates…
"The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics : the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse frameworks of theoretical phonology and morphology all make reference to this fundamental unit of prosodic structure. No less central…
"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 a…
"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 a…
This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.
" This volume contains a wide variety of contributions presented to Vincent van Heuven, Professor of Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics at Leiden University, by his colleagues and former PhD students, on the occasion of his retirement in 2014, as a celebration of his prolifi…
