Parentheticals in Spoken English

Nicole (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) Dehe

Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Parentheticals have traditionally been assumed to lie outside the syntactic structure of the clause in which they are embedded, and in spoken English their external nature is marked by a difference in intonation. This study re-examines parentheticals and argues that they actually operate at the syntax-prosody interface.

ISBN-13
9780521761925
ISBN-10
0521761921
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-06-05
Pages
257
Dimensions
238x165x20
Weight
5