This thesis investigates the representation and acquisition of word-level stress in Turkish. Two general proposals are made in the thesis, one related to formal phonology, the other about second language (L2) acquisition of word-level prosody. The first proposes that the presenc…
"13" Result
Sort By:
Richards (2006, 2010) suggests that wh-movement is prosodically driven. Based on the position of the Comp(lementizer) and the marking of prosodic phrase edges, he claims that if Comp is on one side and the language marks the opposite side of prosodic phrases, then the wh-phrase …
It is a standard finding that speakers reliably produce prosodic cues to clause boundaries and listeners use these cues in parsing sentences. However, considerable uncertainty remains regarding whether the same applies to syntactic phrase boundaries. A long series of studies in …
This dissertation is an attempt to update the theory of prosody and integrate it within recent developments in literary criticism. At the core of this study is the assumption that the sound of discourse transfers the text from its silent fictional existence to an independent ent…
Conversational prosody or tone of voice (e.g. intonation, pauses, speech rate etc.) plays an essential role in our daily communication. Research studies in various contexts have shown that prosody can function as an interactional device for the management of our social interacti…
This thesis is a description of the prosodic patterns in Jaminjung, a language spoken in the Victoria River District in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a quantitative and qualitative examination of the features associated with the intonational phenomena in Jaminjung. …
A great deal of current work in phonology discusses the functional grounding of phonological patterns. This dissertation proposes that functional factors can motivate phonological constraints in two ways. ‘Functionally grounded’ constraints are induced from learners' immediate l…
Despite significant legal enfranchisements over the past 20 years, gays and lesbians in Israel remain largely marginalized and excluded from Israeli society. My dissertation explores how gay and lesbian Israelis understand and negotiate this exclusion, and maps out the ways in w…
This dissertation investigates the prosody-syntax interface in two Hebrew complex nominals. Their meaning is identical but their syntax and phonology differ. The free state (FS) nominal is similar to English (e.g., the coach of the wrestler ). The construct state (CS) nominal la…
This research deals with the Syriac version(s) as a respectable text in and of itself. Many have tried to show how the Syriac favors the Septuagint and/or the Targum, is reliable or unreliable or is useful or not for textual critical study. This paper handles many of the lexical…
A few studies have observed that an inappropriate prosodic contour can mislead the syntactic parsing routines, resulting in a prosody-induced garden-path. Studies by Speer et al. (1996) and Kjelgaard and Speer (1999) (SKS) showed that misplaced prosodic cues caused more processi…
For a few decades now, free verse has been the preferred and in most cases only form used by the vast majority of contemporary Latin American poets. It first emerged in Paris –the global “capital of the 19th century”, as Walter Benjamin famously put it– in the 1880s, at the heig…