Parentheticals in Spoken English
Title | Parentheticals in Spoken English PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-06-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0521761921 |
This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.
Parentheticals in Spoken English
Title | Parentheticals in Spoken English PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-06-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 113999154X |
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.
Parentheticals in Spoken English
Title | Parentheticals in Spoken English PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Deh |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9781306857765 |
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.
Parentheticals
Title | Parentheticals PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027233707 |
This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject, as well as a range of research articles addressing questions including the syntactic link between parenthetical and frame utterance, the relation between syntactic and prosodic form, the usage and interpretation of parentheticals, and many more. It embraces research findings from different European languages (English, German, Dutch, Romance) and covers an array of forms of syntactic interpolations (from one-word parentheticals to clausal) and a range of methodologies, including empirical research, corpus research, and theoretical analyses. The collection underlines the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to a multi-faceted phenomenon such as parentheticals.
Parentheticals in Spoken English
Title | Parentheticals in Spoken English PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-07-07 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9781316003091 |
This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.
Spontaneous Spoken English
Title | Spontaneous Spoken English PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Haselow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108266355 |
A new, thought-provoking book on the theory of grammar and language processing, based on the analysis of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, neurology and conversation analysis, the author offers a fascinating, easy-to-follow account of why spoken English is structured the way it is. The traditional product-based approach to grammar is given up in favour of a speaker-based, dynamic perspective that integrates language-structural, neurocognitive and dialogic aspects of speech production. Based on fresh empirical research Haselow argues that grammatical knowledge rests upon two cognitive principles of linearization called 'microgrammar' and 'macrogrammar', which are shown to interact in various ways. The book discusses a broad range of speech phenomena under an integrated framework, such as the omnipresence of 'unintegrated' constituents (e.g. discourse markers), ellipses, or the allegedly 'fragmented' character of syntax, and explains the mechanisms of processing efficiency that guide syntactic planning.
Parenthetical Verbs
Title | Parenthetical Verbs PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Schneider |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110394197 |
Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. It covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its empirical orientation: Most contributions are based on data from experiments or corpora.