Metrical Structure and Licensing: An Argument from Ukrainian

Licensing in Multiple Contexts: An Argument for Harmonic Grammar

An Attentional Effect of Musical Metrical Structure

Theories of metrical structure postulate the existence of several degrees of beat strength. While previous work has clearly established that humans are sensitive to the distinction between strong beats and weak ones, there is little evidence for a more fine grained distinction between intermediate levels. Here, we present experimental data showing that attention can be allocated to an intermedi...

On the Licensing of Argument Conditionals

Constructions where the clause introduced by wenn 'if' can have a double function in that it is an adverbial that provides the protasis of an implication as well as the propositional argument of a matrix predicate (argument conditionals). Unlike, for instance, Pesetsky's (1991) and Hinterwimmer's (2003) approaches which regard the conjunctions if or when as an "instruction" for the adverbial cl...

Metrical Structure and Jaw Opening

Acoustic and articulatory measurements were made of utterances containing seven syllables using the vowel /aI/ with varying degrees of prominence, including contrastive emphasis/focus. A trained phonetician judged the amount of prominence for each of the seven syllables. The findings show a significant correlation between amount of jaw opening for each of the target syllables and perceived prom...

9 Calculating Metrical Structure