The role of prosody in the English dative alternation

Anttila, Artο; Adams, Matthew; Speriosu, Michael

doi:10.1080/01690960903525481

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“…Like Anttila et al (2010), the present study supports the view that in problems that involve the interaction between phonology and syntax, phonological constraints play a major role. The present study also raises some new questions.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Therefore, the analysis is also fairly simple. In contrast, the data on heavy-NP shift are more variable and the analysis by Anttila et al (2010) uses more intricate constraints. For example, *TERNARY prohibits a prosodic phrase from containing three units, where each unit can be a foot or a syntactic phrase; *P-PHRASE requires there to be as few prosodic phrases as possible; and *to prohibits the use of prepositions.…”

Section: Interactions Among Syntax Semantics and Phonologymentioning

confidence: 91%

“…I have argued that the phonology-based analysis seems the simplest and makes the best predictions. Anttila et al (2010) discusses a similar problem in English, traditionally known as heavy-NP shift, which also involves both phonology and syntax. Unlike some previous analyses, which appeal to semantic and pragmatic factors, Anttila et al demonstrates that a phonology-based analysis works well and can make quantitative predictions correctly.…”

Section: Interactions Among Syntax Semantics and Phonologymentioning

confidence: 98%

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Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study

Duanmu

2011

J East Asian Linguist

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Are there preferred word-length combinations in Chinese? If there are, are they motivated by semantics, syntax, prosody, or a combination of these? While the issue has been discussed for some time, opinions remain divided. This study offers a quantitative analysis of word-length patterns in Chinese [N N] and [V O] sequences, using the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese. It is found that 1þ2 is overwhelmingly disfavored in [N N] and 2þ1 is overwhelmingly disfavored in [V O]. In addition, it is found that apparent exceptions, ranging between 1 and 2%, are limited to certain specific structures, and when these are factored out, both 1þ2 [N N] and 2þ1 [V O] are well below 1% in either token count or type count. The result bears on several theoretical debates, such as the validity of word-length preferences in Chinese, the motivation of the preferences, the extent and the nature of exceptions, and the interaction among syntax, semantics, and phonology.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Interactions Among Syntax Semantics and Phonologymentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Interactions Among Syntax Semantics and Phonologymentioning

confidence: 98%

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Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study

Duanmu

2011

J East Asian Linguist

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“…2 1 See, among many others, Zec and Inkelas 1990, Halpern 1995, Adger 1997, 2007a,b, Zubizarreta 1998, Chung 2003, Culicover and Jackendoff 2005, Gutiérrez-Bravo 2005, Vicente 2005, Göbbel 2007, Anttila 2008, Kandybowicz 2009, López 2009, Agbayani, Golston, and Henderer 2010, Anttila, Adams, and Speriosu 2010, Richards 2010, Manetta 2012, Sabbagh 2013 Here and below, we occasionally highlight the position of a postposed pronoun by placing it in a box; we also indicate the syntactically expected position of the pronoun by way of the symbol .…”

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Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

2016

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This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of the syntax-prosody interface. It argues in particular that such mismatches are best understood in terms of Selkirk's (2011) Match Theory, working in concert with constraints concerned with rhythm and phonological balance. An apparently anomalous rightward movement that seems to target certain pronouns and shift them rightward is shown to be fundamentally a phonological process: a prosodic response to a prosodic dilemma. The article thereby adds to a growing body of evidence for the role of phonological factors in shaping constituent order.

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“…In the linguistics context, the phenomenon has been dubbed the "iambic-trochaic law" (Hayes 1985(Hayes , 1995Hay and Diehl 2007), where the long-last preference applies at the level of the phonological foot. On the syntactic side, long-last effects have been thoroughly explored under the name of "Heavy NP shift" in English and other languages (Wasow 1997a, b;Wasow and Arnold 2003;Wasow 2002;Anttila et al 2010). A variety of syntactic constructions cater to Pāṇini's principle, such as the dative construction in English (3), where the acceptability of ordering the theme NP after the goal PP increases as the theme NP becomes larger.…”

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End-weight effects in verse and language

Blumenfeld

2016

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Weight ordering preferences appear to function in opposite directions in verse and language. While linguistic expressions, in both syntax and phonology, typically display a "long-last" effect (Cooper and Ross 1975), stanza forms often show the the opposite, "short-last" structure.This effect has been called "saliency" in previous literature (Hayes and MacEachern 1996; Kiparsky 2006). In this paper I address this apparent discrepancy between the behaviour of verse and language. I argue that "saliency" is not a primitive in the theory, but can be derived from more basic mechanisms that allow grouping structure to be signalled, and show that "short-last" structures are optimal under the conditions of metrical verse that possesses parallelism.

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The role of prosody in the English dative alternation

Cited by 50 publications

References 18 publications

Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study

Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study

Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

End-weight effects in verse and language

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