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Sentential form and prosodic structure of Catalan /

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and stru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldhausen, Ingo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., Ã2010.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 168.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and structures involving clitic left- and right-dislocations. The results show variation in phrasing that depends on syntactic factors and non-syntactic factors such as topic-hood and prosodic binarity. The theoretical section uses Stochastic Optimality Theory to model the variation and frequency distributi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (285 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
ISBN:9789027287595
9027287597
1282904558
9781282904552
9786612904554
6612904550
ISSN:0166-0829 ;