Abstract P-283

Cat.Jour.Ling. 2 001-283

Our investigation focuses on several types of structural ambiguity in European Portuguese. The materials include sentences with set-divider adverbs ambiguous as to the direction of syntactic attachment, adjunct and complement PPs ambiguous as to the level of syntactic embedding, nonrestrictive clauses with local and non-local possible antecedents, and relative clauses ambiguous as to their rest...

283-286 Garcia-Ruiz.p65

The terms ∆soil and ∆snow can be ignored when evaluating big catchments on a yearly basis under a Mediterranean climate with dry summers. It is assumed that the soil and snow water storage are almost completely exhausted by the end of the hydrological year. The term ∆aquifers can also be neglected when the global water balance is not greatly affected by subterranean circulation. Equation 1 then...

Cat.Jour.Ling. 2 001-283

This paper deals with the intonation of sentence external elements in Catalan. Its main purpose is to investigate the claim that there is a correspondence between prosodic form and grammatical function, so that syntactic independence is paralleled by prosodic independency. A related goal is to identify the mechanisms for signalling prosodic independency and/or dependency. To that end, a product...

Cat.Jour.Ling. 2 001-283

This paper analyses the role of prosody in parenthetical insertions, a type of structure that is extremely common in both speech and writing. The materials under study come from a corpus of spontaneous speech acts in Central Catalan (with varying degrees of spontaneity) from which a corpus of oral parenthetical insertions has been compiled. The prototypical prosodic features of a parenthetical ...

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