Prosody and information structure
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Marianne Mithun
Abstract
In this paper the focus is on syntactic and prosodic structures in a language that is typologically quite different from the majority languages of Europe and Asia. Mohawk, a language of the Iroquoian family, is indigenous to northeastern North America. Examples cited here are drawn from unscripted conversations. Though much of the grammatical structure of Mohawk differs substantially from that of European languages, many of the devices exploited by speakers to shape the flow of information converge.
Abstract
In this paper the focus is on syntactic and prosodic structures in a language that is typologically quite different from the majority languages of Europe and Asia. Mohawk, a language of the Iroquoian family, is indigenous to northeastern North America. Examples cited here are drawn from unscripted conversations. Though much of the grammatical structure of Mohawk differs substantially from that of European languages, many of the devices exploited by speakers to shape the flow of information converge.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies 1
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Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
- Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation 27
- A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages 69
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora 84
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Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
- The grammatical annotation of speech corpora 105
- The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese 129
- The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora 152
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Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
- Speech and corpora 191
- Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech 210
- Illocution, attitudes and prosody 233
- Exploring the prosody of stance 271
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Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
- Prosody and information structure 297
- The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation 331
- Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory 365
- Prosodic constraints for discourse markers 411
- Appendix 468
- Index 496
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies 1
-
Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
- Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation 27
- A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages 69
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora 84
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Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
- The grammatical annotation of speech corpora 105
- The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese 129
- The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora 152
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Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
- Speech and corpora 191
- Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech 210
- Illocution, attitudes and prosody 233
- Exploring the prosody of stance 271
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Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
- Prosody and information structure 297
- The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation 331
- Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory 365
- Prosodic constraints for discourse markers 411
- Appendix 468
- Index 496
