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Author Dehé, Nicole, author.

Title Parentheticals in spoken English : the syntax-prosody relation / Nicole Dehé.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 250 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in English language
Studies in English language.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with relevant theoretical work at the syntax-prosody interface. It offers a detailed prosodic analysis of six types of parentheticals - full parenthetical clauses, non-restrictive relative clauses, nominal appositions, comment clauses, reporting verbs, and question tags, all taken from the spoken part of the British Component of the International Corpus of English. To date, the common assumption is that by default, parentheticals are prosodically phrased separately, an assumption which, as this study shows, is not always in line with the predictions made by current prosodic theory. The present study provides new empirical evidence for the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spontaneous and semi-spontaneous spoken English, and offers new implications for a theory of linguistic interfaces"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject English language -- Parenthetical constructions.
English language -- Parenthetical constructions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parenthetical constructions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parenthetical constructions.
English language -- Spoken English.
English language -- Spoken English.
English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Syntax.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dehé, Nicole. Parentheticals in spoken English 9780521761925 (DLC) 2014004409 (OCoLC)866619641
ISBN 9781139032391 (electronic book)
1139032399 (electronic book)
9781316003091 (electronic book)
1316003094 (electronic book)
9781316007594 (ebook)
1316007596 (ebook)
9780521761925
0521761921