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