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The major claim of this paper is that information structure related particles of Sinhala are distinct functional heads and they project in syntax. This is in line with the cartographic approach to syntax which claims that discourse related features are visible for computation (Rizzi 1997, 2004), a claim also supported by Miyagawa, (2010), and Aboh (2010), among others. The present paper seeks to validate...
The present case study investigated the speech production and perception of developmental dyslexia through prosodic cues in Standard Chinese. As a non-alphabetic tonal language, there is a complex neurobiological mechanism between visual picture processing and semantic priming, perception and production of prosodic patterns. The experimental materials employed in the study were the syntactic structure...
It is now clear that a thorough understanding of grammar depends on an awareness of its functions in discourse. Grammar provides speakers with arrays of tools for packaging information. Grammatical choices speakers make at every level of structure can be detected only with respect to their communicative goals and the discourse context. At the same time, a full understanding of discourse structures...
This paper proposes a new approach to German sentence accent assignment and intonational patterns using embedded prosodic domains. The concept of embeddedness is restricted to prosodic domains embedding and differs from Cinque's (1993) syntactic embeddedness. It is shown that both syntax and prosody play a role in sentence accents. Prosodic domains are projected from syntax, and every syntactic maximal...
Since the comparative work by Vallduví (1992, 1994), we know that similar information packagings may resort to completely different formal mechanisms across languages. For instance, right-dislocation (RD) is a highly productive backgrounding strategy in Catalan, but a marginal one in English, resorting in stress shift. To our current understanding, one might take this situation to be a casual state...
This article is an attempt to investigate subject and object phrases coordinated with ne...ne 'neither ...nor' in Turkish. Arguing against the common Turkological practice, it is suggested that the use of subject or object ne...ne phrases with negative predicates, in addition to those with non-negative predicates, is well-motivated in terms of their information structure. In other words, ne...ne phrases...
In this paper, we investigate the interaction of phonological and syntactic constraints on the realization of Information Structure in Greek, a free word order language. We use magnitude estimation as our experimental paradigm, which allows us to quantify the influence of a given linguistic constraint on the acceptability of a sentence. We present results from two experiments. In the first experiment,...
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