Dehé / Dehe Parentheticals in Spoken English

The Syntax-Prosody Relation
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-139-98921-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in English Language

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dehé, Nicole

Dehe, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Dehé, Nicole
Nicole Dehé is a Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.