Sentential form and prosodic structure of Catalan
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions for Glosses and Translations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Fundamental aspects of Catalan intonation; Chapter 3. Phrasing patterns in Catalan SVO structures; Chapter 4. Syntactic aspects of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation; Chapter 5. Prosodic phrasing of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation; Chapter 6. Left-dislocations and preverbal subjects; Chapter 7. Conclusion and outlook; References; Appendices; Index 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 |
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| ISBN: | 9027255512 9027287597 9789027255518 9789027287595 |