Prosodic PhonologyForis, 1986 - 327 pages |
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... meanings for a single sequence of sound segments . In the most ' classic ' case , often called ' homophony ' or ' polisemy ' ( see Ullmann , 1962 ) , ambiguity is the result of the fact that a given word may have more than one meaning ...
... meanings for a single sequence of sound segments . In the most ' classic ' case , often called ' homophony ' or ' polisemy ' ( see Ullmann , 1962 ) , ambiguity is the result of the fact that a given word may have more than one meaning ...
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... meaning of a potentially ambiguous sentence . For example , the sentence in ( 4 ) is understood in one way if the ... meaning is that in ( 5a ) , this is usually signalled by a peak in the intonation contour on the word solo , while this ...
... meaning of a potentially ambiguous sentence . For example , the sentence in ( 4 ) is understood in one way if the ... meaning is that in ( 5a ) , this is usually signalled by a peak in the intonation contour on the word solo , while this ...
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... meaning of ambigu- ous sentences Type of Sentence % Choice of In- Predicted Disambiguation tended Meaning Syntactic Proposal Prosodic Proposal 1 50.0 י 1 51.4 3 59.1 + 4 52.6 + 5 86.1 + 6 94.9 + + 7 67.8 + 8 75.8 + + 9 90.2 10 90.2 + + ...
... meaning of ambigu- ous sentences Type of Sentence % Choice of In- Predicted Disambiguation tended Meaning Syntactic Proposal Prosodic Proposal 1 50.0 י 1 51.4 3 59.1 + 4 52.6 + 5 86.1 + 6 94.9 + + 7 67.8 + 8 75.8 + + 9 90.2 10 90.2 + + ...
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Motivation for prosodic constituents | 27 |
The syllable and the foot | 61 |
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adjacent affixes ambiguous sentences application of phonological basis branching trees Chapter clitic group complement compound consonant deletion disambiguation discussed domain of application elements English examples exemplified fact Flapping foot formulation given grammar Hayes hendecasyllable Hulst ical ictus ictuses illustrated intonation contours intonational phrase Italian Kiparsky language lexical linguistic mapping rules metrical metrical foot morpheme morpho-syntactic morphological n-ary branching Nasal Assimilation Nespor node notions noun obstruent phenomena phonetic phonological constituent phonological hierarchy phonological phrase phonological rules phonological utterance phonological word position possible predictions prefixes primary stress proposed prosodic constituents prosodic hierarchy prosodic phonology prosodic rules prosodic structure recursive languages reference relation relevant restructuring resyllabification rhyme rule applies rules that apply sandhi Schwa seen Selkirk semantic sequence shown span rule Spanish specific speech stem string suffixes syllabification syllable structure syntactic constituents syntactic hierarchy syntactic structure syntactic tree syntax terminal element theory tion Vogel vowel