EAN: 9783110992113

PROSODY IN SYNTACTIC ENCODING LINGUISTISCHE A...

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure?A standard notion holds
that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of
words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral
components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax
are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form.The
different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand  prosody
is a signal to syntax  marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand  prosodic or
intonational features convey meaning  the concept intonational morpheme (as e.g. an exponent of
information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into
the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate
relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their
cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence  adducing data from experiments or from the
careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of
research on the syntax-phonology interface.

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