Intonation phrases and speech acts

Truckenbrodt, Hubert

doi:10.1515/9781614514831.301

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“…The findings of this study supports Kan (2009), Selkirk (2011 and Truckenbrodt (2005Truckenbrodt ( , 2014, in that syntactic structures that are used as speech acts are parsed as intonational phrases due to the fact that they are Force ill Ps. However, the arguments of this paper differ from these studies, in that this paper claims that not all parentheticals function as speech acts, and not all Force ill Ps dominate a clausal structure.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Selkirk (2005) suggests that in such constructions each focused phrase is parsed as an independent ı. Related to this, Truckenbrodt (2014) suggests that each focus expresses a separate claim (hence a separate speech act), which yields each focused XP to be parsed as ı in English and German. It may, perhaps, be the case that their status as ıs is triggered because each focused XP is immediately dominated by ForceillP.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the hypothesis that clauses that are utilized as speech acts are intonated as Is has already been confirmed crosslinguistically (Kan, 2009;Selkirk, 2009Selkirk, , 2011Truckenbrodt, 2014), the notion that nonclausal syntactic structures may exhibit Force ill P and therefore be parsed as Is (due to the constraint in (7)) has not been previously entertained. This study is for the assumption that non-clausal Force ill Ps exist in natural language grammars.…”

Section: Matchforcep and Matchparp To Intonational Phrasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constraints on syntax-prosody correspondence: The case of clausal and subclausal parentheticals in Turkish

Güneş

2014

Lingua

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Constraints on syntax-prosody correspondence: The case of clausal and subclausal parentheticals in Turkish

Güneş

2014

Lingua

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“…We propose that both the semantic notion of Speech Act and the syntactic notion of clause, understood as the highest phrase whose head is overtly filled by the verb or verbal material (HVP), are relevant for prosodic phrasing. Truckenbrodt (2015) and Selkirk (2011) proposed that the embedded clauses that form their own ι are those that constitute a speech act. Also inspired by Downing (1970) Truckenbrodt (2005Truckenbrodt ( , 2015 proposes a combination of Align (CP) and Wrap (CP).…”

Section: (6)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Truckenbrodt (2015) and Selkirk (2011) proposed that the embedded clauses that form their own ι are those that constitute a speech act. Also inspired by Downing (1970) Truckenbrodt (2005Truckenbrodt ( , 2015 proposes a combination of Align (CP) and Wrap (CP). We remain agnostic as to the exact formulation of this constraint, and adopt a short-hand notation SpA-ι for a constraint (or a group of constraints) that is violated whenever a speech act is not contained in a single ι.…”

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The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: A flexible approach

Hamlaoui

Szendrői

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper, we extend to complex sentences the proposal that the notion of clause in Align/Match constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intonational phrase should be determined in each language (and each construction) by making reference to the highest syntactic phrase whose head is overtly filled by the verb (or verbal material) (Hamlaoui & Szendrői 2015). We propose that while root-clauses have a privileged status from the syntax-toprosody mapping perspective, all clauses are equal in the prosody-to-syntax mapping. In the spirit of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 2005), we bring in extragrammatical motivation for the proposed mapping principles from parsing and learnability. This allows us to account for the fact that, whereas in many languages like Bàsàá (Bantu) and Hungarian (Finno-Ugric), only root clauses normally map onto intonational phrases, additional intonational phrase edges can be found under the pressure of high-ranked prosodic, processing or information-structural requirements. This is the case with Hungarian embedded foci and Bàsàá embedded topics where, we argue, embedded ι edges are meant to satisfy StressFocus and AlignTopic, respectively. In languages where embedded clauses seem to map onto their own intonational phrases more generally, such as Japanese or Luganda, further independent constraints should be evoked.

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Right-dislocation as deletion

Vries

Ott

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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While the left clausal periphery has been in the center of attention of syntactic theory since the 1970s, the right periphery remains comparatively ill-understood. The goal of this paper is to rectify this situation. We argue that Germanic right-dislocation constructions are composed of two juxtaposed clauses, the dislocated peripheral XP being a remnant of ellipsis in the second clause. This analysis explains the extrasentential status of right-dislocated constituents while simultaneously accounting for signs of syntactic connectivity. These two seemingly conflicting facets are reconciled in a manner familiar from deletion-based accounts of sluicing and fragment answers, i.e. by attributing the relevant (apparent) grammatical interactions to parallel but silent clausal structure. We show that this analysis successfully derives the core properties of both backgrounded and focused ('afterthought') phrases at the right periphery, whereas monosentential movement or base-generation accounts necessarily fall short of accounting for the observed facts. The analysis not only eliminates a putative case of rightward movement, but shows that right-dislocation can be fully understood in terms of independently motivated computations, thereby removing constructional residue from the theory of Universal Grammar.

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Intonation phrases and speech acts

Cited by 108 publications

References 35 publications

Constraints on syntax-prosody correspondence: The case of clausal and subclausal parentheticals in Turkish

Constraints on syntax-prosody correspondence: The case of clausal and subclausal parentheticals in Turkish

The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: A flexible approach

Right-dislocation as deletion

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