Intonation, bias and Greek NPIs

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Tone and stress in North-West Indo-Aryan 1
5. Whose voice is that? Challenges in forensic phonetics 14
6. Pitch accent placement in Dutch as a second language 28
7. The problems of adverbs in Zulu 42
8. Meaningful grammar is binary, local, anti-symmetric, recursive and incomplete 60
9. How prosody is both mandatory and optional 71
10. No Stress Typology 83
11. The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes 96
12. Intonation, bias and Greek NPIs 109
13. Information status and L2 prosody 120
14. Does boundary tone production in whispered speech depend on its bearer? Exploring a case of tonal crowding in whisper 131
15. The primacy of the weak in Carib prosody 144
16. The effects of age and level of education on the ability of adult native speakers of Dutch to segment speech into words 152
17. Doing grammatical semantics as if it were phonetics 165
18. Phonetic aspects of polar questions in Sienese 174
19. Etymological sub-lexicons constrain the graphematic solution space 189
20. Do speakers try to distract attention from their speech errors? The prosody of self-repairs 203
21. Field notes from a phonetician on Tundra Yukaghir orthography 218
22. Cross-regional differences in the perception of fricative devoicing 230
23. Evidence for three-level vowel length in Ageer Dinka 246
24. Phonetic accounts of timed responses in syllable monitoring experiments 261
25. The independent effects of prosodic structure and information status on tonal coarticulation 275
26. The acoustics of English vowels in the speech of Dutch learners before and after pronunciation training 288
27. The use of Chinese dialects 302
28. Durational effects of phrasal stress 311
29. The Laryngeal Class in RcvP and Voice phenomena in Dutch 323
30. Affricates in English as a natural class 350
31. Index 359