Parentheticals in Spoken English - The Syntax-Prosody Relation

This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.

List of contents

1. Parentheticals in English: introduction; 2. The syntax and prosody of parentheticals; 3. Parentheticals, intonational phrasing and prosodic theory; 4. Data analysis, results and discussion; 5. Final discussion.

About the author

Nicole Dehé is a Professor of General Linguistics at Universität Konstanz, Germany.

Summary

Parentheticals have traditionally been assumed to lie outside the syntactic structure of the clause in which they are embedded, and in spoken English their external nature is marked by a difference in intonation. This study re-examines parentheticals and argues that they actually operate at the syntax-prosody interface.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Dehe, Nicole Dehé
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781108403887
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40388-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; England, Language, Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology