Sentence external elements in Catalan
| Autor: | Lluïsa Astruc |
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| Jazyk: | Catalan; Valencian<br />English |
| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2 (2003) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1695-6885 2014-9719 |
| DOI: | 10.5565/rev/catjl.41 |
| Popis: | This paper deals with the intonation of sentence external elements in Catalan. Its main purpose is to investigate the claim that there is a correspondence between prosodic form and grammatical function, so that syntactic independence is paralleled by prosodic independency. A related goal is to identify the mechanisms for signalling prosodic independency and/or dependency. To that end, a production experiment was devised eliciting the same sentences in different pitch ranges. The conclusion is that sentence external elements do not constitute a uniform category, either syn- tactically or prosodically. Quotation attributions are nearly always deaccented, appositions and non-restrictive relatives copy the pattern of the main phrase in a lower voice, some parentheticals are produced in a lower pitch range, while sentence adverbs do not show any tonal subordination at all. |
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