The prosody of discourse functions: The case of appositive relative clauses in spoken British English

Auran, Cyril; Loock, Rudy

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“…Third, a continuative ARC can be rewritten as a main clause coordinated to the original main clause. The categories are also correlated with specific morphosyntactic, semantic, and prosodic characteristics (see Auran & Loock 2010, 2011 for a discussion of the prosody of ARCs with respect to their discourse functions).…”

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The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives

Loock

O’Connor

2013

Journal of English Linguistics

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This article investigates the discourse functions of nonverbal appositives: noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and adjective phrases in apposition to a preceding nominal unit. Given the many similarities between nonverbal appositives and appositive relative clauses, the discourse functions of the latter serve as a starting point for an evaluation of the discourse functions of the former. More precisely, we compare our 600-token corpus of nonverbal appositives with Loock’s taxonomy of discourse functions for appositive relative clauses. The taxonomy is then modified to accommodate the nonverbal appositives that do not fit the taxonomy. Correlations with a series of linguistic parameters are established.

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The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives

Loock

O’Connor

2013

Journal of English Linguistics

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“…This means that boundary cues used in appositive clauses only play a role in the identification of a "strong" boundary. Production studies have shown that silent pauses and final syllable lengthening are typical features of sequences containing appositive clauses [5]; [6], contrary to adverbial and restrictive relative clauses. However, although appositive clauses are also typically preceded with falling tones on L's nuclear syllable [5] and that they are commonly produced with a change in pitch height [5], or with a higher onset [6], falling or rising tones do not play any significant role in boundary perception.…”

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“…Production studies on the prosodic characteristics of syntactic subordination in spontaneous speech have shown that subordinate constructions display different degrees of prosodic autonomy depending on their syntactic type [5]; [6]. This study focuses on adverbial clauses, appositive clauses, and restrictive relative clauses, as illustrated in examples (1)(2)(3).…”

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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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“…23 Prijevod preuzet iz Kordić (1995). 24 Iako Auran i Loock (2011) te Loock (2011) koriste terminologiju vezanu za usmenu komunikaciju, većina primjerâ koje navode dolazi iz tiska, zbog čega se može zaključiti da navedeno vrijedi i za pismenu komunikaciju.…”

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“…Structurally, appositive clauses are nominal finite or non-finite clauses and can be restrictive or non-restrictive. Other grammarians, such as Auran and Loock (2011) or de Vries (2006), use the term appositive relative clause to denote a non-restrictive relative clause which is linked to a noun or a whole clause in order to convey additional information about it. Through comparison, it is concluded that apozicijska rečenica and appositive clause are not equivalents, since an appositive clause is not a type of sentence, but a type of clause.…”

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Apozicijska rečenica and Appositive Clause

Gugo¹

2022

Raspr. Inst. hrvat. jez. jezikosl. (Online)

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U ovome radu promatrane su apozicijske rečenice u hrvatskome i appositive clauses u engleskome kako bi se utvrdilo jesu li ta dva gramatička naziva istovrijednice. Pregledom hrvatskih gramatika uočava se da među kroatistima nema suglasnosti oko statusa apozicijske rečenice. U onim radovima u kojima je taj pojam obrađen (npr. Hudeček i Mihaljević 2017, Silić i Pranjković 2007), apozicijska rečenica definirana je kao zavisnosložena rečenica u kojoj se zavisna odnosna surečenica veže na imenicu ili imensku riječ kako bi dopunila njezino značenje. Naziv appositive clause koristi se pak u gramatikama engleskoga jezika dvoznačno. Quirk i dr. (1997) njime označavaju surečenicu koja je vezana na apstraktnu imenicu kako bi je preciznije odredila. Strukturno appositive clauses imenske su finitne ili nefinitne surečenice te mogu biti restriktivne i nerestriktivne. Drugi gramatičari, poput Aurana i Loocka (2011) ili de Vriesa (2006), naziv appositive relative clause upotrebljavaju za nerestriktivnu odnosnu surečenicu koja se veže na imenicu ili cijelu surečenicu kako bi prenijela dodatne obavijesti o njoj. Usporedbom rad dolazi do zaključka da apozicijska rečenica i appositive clause nisu istovrijednice, prvenstveno zbog toga što appositive clause nije vrsta rečenice, već surečenice. No, ne može se tvrditi ni da su apozicijska surečenicai appositive clause istovrijedne: apozicijske surečenice imaju širi raspon antecedenata od appositive clauses i isključivo su odnosne i nerestriktivne. Appositive relative clauses strukturno su i sadržajno bliže apozicijskim surečenicama te bi stoga taj naziv bio prihvatljiviji kao istovrijednica. Predlaže se da se u terminološke radove i baze uvrste natuknice za vrste surečenica u hrvatskome te da u natuknici za apozicijsku surečenicu kao engleska istovrijednica bude navedeno appositive relative clause. Zasebne natuknice za tipove surečenica omogućile bi ujedno točnije sparivanje hrvatskih i engleskih istovrijednica.

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The prosody of discourse functions: The case of appositive relative clauses in spoken British English

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The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives

The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives

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

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