Is Syntactic Structure Prosodically Retrievable?
نویسندگان
چکیده
Syntactic structure is defined in its three components. A survey of prosodist's studies on the relationship between prosody and syntax brings out two major trends: those who think that syntactic structure is immaterial for intonation and those who argue for matching rules between syntax and prosody. The recent studies presented here lend weight to a syntactic-based approach to accounting for intonational phrasing and boundary strength. A three-level model consisting of three modules, pragmatic, syntactic and rhythmic, is discussed. The flexibility of the higher units of prosodic structure is explained and predicted. The extent to which syntactic structure can be retrieved from prosodic markers is demonstrated.
منابع مشابه
The Syntax–Prosody Interface in Lexical Functional Grammar
This thesis develops a new approach to the syntax–prosody interface and establishes the integration of the phonological module into Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG is a modular grammar theory, which (among other questions) is interested in the relation between form and meaning, i.e., between what is said/perceived and what is intended/understood. An important factor with respect to this q...
متن کاملProsodic and syntactic segmentation of spontaneous speech: A preliminary study
In this paper we examine prosodic and syntactic segmentation of spoken Finnish language. Syntactic sentence or clause is generally mentioned as one of the basic units of language, but it can be questioned whether it is a good unit for analysing the structure of spontaneous speech. By wavelet-based analysis, the prosodic structure of speech can be represented as a tree diagram, making it possibl...
متن کاملProsodically conditioned articulatory variations: A review
Utterances are comprised of words belonging to various syntactic classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.). The arrangement of these words follows precise syntactic rules, specified in the Grammar of the language. Words are organized into syntactic constituents, and syntactic constituents are organized into a hierarchical tree-like syntactic structure. For example, in the utterance "the little g...
متن کاملThe Prosody of Algebra and the Algebra of Prosody: Prosodic Disambiguation of Read Mathematical Formulae
Read mathematical formulae (MF) provide an ideal and littlestudied window into speakers' ability to prosodically disambiguate complex NPs. An experiment investigating whether and how speakers of different mathematical skill levels prosodically mark English utterances containing ambiguities caused by the application of unary and binary mathematical operators found that speakers consistently mark...
متن کاملImproving parsing by incorporating 'prosodic clause boundaries into a grammar
In written language, punctuation is used to separate main and subordinate clause. In spoken language, ambiguities arise due to missing punctuation, but clause boundaries are often marked prosodically and can be used instead. We detect PCBs (Prosodically marked Clause Boundaries)by using prosodic features (duration, intonation, energy, and pause information) with a neural network, achieving a re...
متن کامل