Adverbial patterns in interaction

Ehmer, Oliver; Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2016.05.001

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“…The fact that adverbial clauses are associated with a weak boundary also finds an echo on macro-syntactic grounds, since adverbial clauses have been shown to feature a flexible macrosyntax [43]. They often show partial autonomy, in which syntactic freedom does not necessarily correspond to pragmatic freedom [44].…”

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Perception of prosodic boundaries by naïve listeners in three different types of subordinate syntactic constructions

Lelandais¹,

Ferré²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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This paper investigates the use of prosodic and syntactic information in the perception of boundaries in extracts of spontaneous speech. 30 naïve listeners had to measure boundary strength for 52 extracts on a 5-point scale. The stimuli all contained three tone-units, the second being a syntactic subordinate construction, which was established as a variable. The prosodic cues at the boundary between the tone-units were also established as variables, and were subject to manipulation (addition of a single cue associated with the perception of a prosodic boundary). The stimuli were also resynthesized in another set to obliterate lexical and syntactic content while keeping syllabic structure and intonation. Results show that naïve listeners are able to identify different degrees of break, and that the three syntactic types show different interactions with ratings. Although a silent pause is the strongest cue to boundary perception for all three types of subordination, the orders and levels of association with other prosodic cues are not the same across syntactic types.

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Perception of prosodic boundaries by naïve listeners in three different types of subordinate syntactic constructions

Lelandais¹,

Ferré²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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“…These criteria all encourage to investigate clause linkage relying on a wider, more detailed set of syntactic and semantic parameters (Van Valin, 1984), or to go beyond the micro-syntactic frame in observing not only governing relations, but also modal and illocutionary relations (Ford, 1997;Thompson, 2002;Heringa, 2007). Cognitive Grammar has also shown that syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic subordination need not align for a same construction (Langacker, 2008;Cristofaro, 2014;Ehmer, 2016). A clause with an embedded participant can for instance be pragmatically autonomous and bring foreground information in discourse.…”

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“…A clause with an embedded participant can for instance be pragmatically autonomous and bring foreground information in discourse. Ford (1997) and Ehmer (2016) among others have highlighted the variety of independent pragmatic actions that subordinate constructions can accomplish.…”

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Modelling the interpretative impact of subordinate constructions in spontaneous conversation

Lelandais¹

2020

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If-insubordination in spoken British English: Syntactic and pragmatic properties

Lastres‐López

2018

Language Sciences

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Adverbial patterns in interaction

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Perception of prosodic boundaries by naïve listeners in three different types of subordinate syntactic constructions

Perception of prosodic boundaries by naïve listeners in three different types of subordinate syntactic constructions

Modelling the interpretative impact of subordinate constructions in spontaneous conversation

If-insubordination in spoken British English: Syntactic and pragmatic properties

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