Prosody in Syntactic Encoding

by Gerrit Kentner and Joost Kremers

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110992116
• ISBN13: 9783110992113
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary