Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew
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Vered Silber-Varod
Abstract
The aim of the present study is to investigate two aspects of speech: suprasegmental characteristics and syntagmatic relations. More specifically, it focused on the segmentation role of prosody and its interface with the syntagmatic sequence. While certain prosodic boundary tones seem to break speech with correlation to syntactic phrasing, it was found that excessive elongated words are indeed prosodic breaks of various “strong” dependencies. Such a break is not due only to prosody or phonological rules, but can be attributed to the strength of syntagmatic relations (i.e. dependencies) between the elongated word and the word that precedes it, and between the elongated word and the following word. The findings suggest an encompassing approach to the prosody-syntax interface which says that through the elongated boundaries phenomenon, speakers and listeners are exposed to the tension between the prosodic strata and the syntactic strata of language, i.e. between a prosodic break and syntactic continuity. This tension occurs about 10%–18% of spontaneous Israeli Hebrew boundary tones.
Abstract
The aim of the present study is to investigate two aspects of speech: suprasegmental characteristics and syntagmatic relations. More specifically, it focused on the segmentation role of prosody and its interface with the syntagmatic sequence. While certain prosodic boundary tones seem to break speech with correlation to syntactic phrasing, it was found that excessive elongated words are indeed prosodic breaks of various “strong” dependencies. Such a break is not due only to prosody or phonological rules, but can be attributed to the strength of syntagmatic relations (i.e. dependencies) between the elongated word and the word that precedes it, and between the elongated word and the following word. The findings suggest an encompassing approach to the prosody-syntax interface which says that through the elongated boundaries phenomenon, speakers and listeners are exposed to the tension between the prosodic strata and the syntactic strata of language, i.e. between a prosodic break and syntactic continuity. This tension occurs about 10%–18% of spontaneous Israeli Hebrew boundary tones.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
