Deriving Multiple Head and Phrasal Movement: The Cluster Hypothesis

, movement , and phrasal stress

In this paper, we report the results of an experiment concerning the eVect of object clauses on phrasal stress of the matrix verb. The presentation of the experiment is embedded in a discussion of the interaction of phrasal stress with movement in German. Section 10.2 includes some background on stress assignment and an introduction to the interaction of syntactic movement with the assignment o...

Deriving Turkana Word Order: Head-Movement and Topicality

The word order of Turkana (Kenya, Nilo-Saharan) is strongly verb-subject-object (VSO) (Dimmendaal 1983a,b), although there are systematic VOS deviations that correlate with what Dimmendaal (1983a, 1985) terms "prominence;" where the object outranks the subject along a certain scale, it takes linear precedence. In what follows, I will provide an analysis of Turkana V-initial word order in terms ...

The comprehension of Relative Clauses within Movement-based hypothesis in L1 and L2: the Case of Tati and English

Atrial flutter and the circus movement hypothesis.

RUNNING HEAD : Lexical stress and phrasal prosody in segmentation

A large body of empirical research demonstrates that people exploit a wide variety of cues for the segmentation of continuous speech in artificial languages, including rhythmic properties, phrase boundary cues, and statistical regularities. However, less is known regarding how the different cues interact. In this study we addressed the question of the relative importance of lexical stress, phra...