9781108403887 - Parentheticals in Spoken English: The Syntax-prosody Relation (Studies in English Language) von Dehé, Nicole (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 260 pages, 30 b/w illus. 18 tables. BIC Classification: CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.