Effect of V2 Accent on relationships (a) between duration and displacement/velocity ratio, and (b) between peak velocity and displacement for /i/-to-/a/ tongue lowering gestures in the y dimension.. Figure 6.6. Effect of V2 Accent on relationships (a) between duration and displacement/velocity ratio, and (b) between peak velocity and displacement for /a/-to-/i/ tongue fronting gestures in the x...

This paper proposes a description of German word order including phenomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description relates a syntactic dependency structure directly to a topological hierarchy without resorting to movement or similar mechanisms.

Chinese compounds exhibit word order variations that have so far not been well understood. In this article I propose that the word order variation is motivated by metrical requirements. I also propose that the mechanism for word movement is Nonhead Fronting, an operation that is similar to XP movement by adjunction in syntax.

Speech sound disorders are a common communication impairment in childhood. Because speech can negatively affect the lives and development of children, clinical intervention is often recommended. To help with diagnosis treatment, clinicians use instrumented methods such as spectrograms or ultrasound tongue imaging to analyse articulations. Analysis these be laborious for clinicians, therefore th...

This paper proposes a description of German word order including phenomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description relates a syntactic dependency structure directly to a topological hierarchy without resorting to movement or similar mechanisms.

In the face of partial fronting phenomena in German, we introduce spinal TT-MCTAG, a new MCTAG variant that integrates features of LTAG-spinal and TT-MCTAG. Using spinal TT-MCTAG we arrive at flat syntactic structures which make available a consistent account for the data.

1 The issue The topicalization of partial constituents in German has received much attention in the literature since the phenomenon is a serious challenge to the theory of constituency. In the HPSG paradigm, the attention has focussed on the topicalization of partial verb phrases. 1 But G. M uller (1993, 1996) and others discussed that partial constituent fronting in German also occurs with nom...