A Linguistic Analysis Of Sentence Stress
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A Linguistic Analysis Of Sentence Stress
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Author : A. J. Szwedek
language : en
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date : 1986
A Linguistic Analysis Of Sentence Stress written by A. J. Szwedek and has been published by Gunter Narr Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Accents and accentuation categories.
Aspects Of English Sentence Stress
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Author : Susan F. Schmerling
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Aspects Of English Sentence Stress written by Susan F. Schmerling and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Aspects of English Sentence Stress is written within the conceptual framework of generative-transformational grammar. However, it is atheoretical in the sense that the proposals made cannot be formulated in this theory and are a challenge to many other theories. The author's concern is not with the phonetic nature of stress; rather, using a working definition of stress as subjective impression of prominence, she attempts to formulate general principles that will predict the relative prominence of different words in particular utterances—what might be called the syntax of stress. She supports her arguments with a large amount of original data and provides the basis for new ways of thinking about this area of linguistic research. Schmerling begins with a detailed review and critique of Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle's approach to sentence stress; she shows that their cyclic analysis cannot be considered valid, even for quite simple phrases and sentences. Next, she reviews discussions of sentence stress by Joan Bresnan, George Lakoff, and Dwight Bolinger, agreeing with Bolinger's contention that there is no intimate connection between sentence stress and syntactic structure but showing that his counterproposal to the standard approach is inadequate as well. She also examines the concept of "normal stress" and demonstrates that no linguistically significant distinction can be drawn between "normal" and "special" stress contours. In generating her own proposals concerning sentence stress, Professor Schmerling takes the view that certain items which are stressable are taken for granted by the speaker and are eliminated from consideration by the principles governing relative prominence of words in a sentence. Then she examines the pragmatic and phonological principles pertaining to items that are not eliminated from consideration. Finally, the author contends that the standard views, which she shows to be untenable, are a result of the assumption that linguistic entities should be studied apart from questions concerning their use, in that it was adoption of this methodological assumption that forced linguists to deny the essentially pragmatic nature of sentence stress. Accessible to anyone who is familiar with the basic concepts of generative-transformational grammar, Aspects of English Sentence Stress presents provocative ideas in the field.
Pragmatic Determinants Of English Sentence Stress
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Author : Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Pragmatic Determinants Of English Sentence Stress written by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with English language categories.
The Study Of Word Stress And Accent
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Author : Rob Goedemans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-06
The Study Of Word Stress And Accent written by Rob Goedemans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.
The Syntax Of Sentential Stress
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Author : Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-30
The Syntax Of Sentential Stress written by Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations.
Topic And Focus In English And German Sentences A Cross Linguistic Analysis
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Author : Patrick Wedekind
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Topic And Focus In English And German Sentences A Cross Linguistic Analysis written by Patrick Wedekind and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, language: English, abstract: When semanticists examine the way speakers or writers code the knowledge they expect their listeners or readers to have in a sentence, one of the most important aspects to consider is the information structure of the sentence. Within this information structure, a subdivision is commonly made between already known or given information, which is usually referred to as the ‘topic’ of the sentence, and new information, normally called the ‘focus’. While some languages, for instance Somali, possess explicit focus markers to indicate the focalization of certain elements in a sentence, English has to rely mainly on the intonation of a sentence as the focus marker due to its rigid subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. German, on the other hand, provides a greater syntactic flexibility since it is a highly inflected language in which the grammatical function of words is less defined by their position within a sentence than their grammatical cases. Therefore, speakers of German do not have to rely solely on changing the intonation in order to mark a sentence’s focus, but may also use syntactic displacement as a focus marker. Nevertheless, syntactic changes to focalize certain elements in a sentence are also possible to a limited extent in English, but they require special constructions not necessary for focus marking in German. Since these differences in focus marking seem to be significant in light of the fact that both English and German are Germanic languages, they will constitute the main focus of this paper. I will begin my study of topic and focus in the two languages with an examination of the several strategies for focusing employed in spoken English and German and then continue with those strategies typically used in writing. In doing this, I take account of the limitation of some of these strategies to one of these two different forms of communication.
Aspects Of English Sentence Stress
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Author : Susan Fred Schmerling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Word Order Sentence Stress And Reference In English And Polish
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Author : A. J. Szwedek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Word Order Sentence Stress And Reference In English And Polish written by A. J. Szwedek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Contrastive linguistics categories.
Word Stress
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Author : Harry van der Hulst
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Word Stress written by Harry van der Hulst and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A team of world-renowned phonologists present new perspectives on word stress, exploring stress as a phenomenon, data selection, and analysis.
Papers On Syntax
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Author : Z. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Papers On Syntax written by Z. Harris and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram mar. These three are not opposing views or independent assumptions about language. Rather, they are successive stages of investigation into the word combinations which constitue the sentences of a language in contrast to those which do not. Throughout, the goal has been to find the systemati cities of these combinations, and then to obtain each sentence in a uniform way from its parts. In structural analysis, the parts were words (simple or complex, belonging to particular classes) or particular sequences of these. In transformational analysis, it is found that the parts of a sentence are elementary sentences, whose parts in turn are simple words of particular classes. The relation between these two analyses is seen in the existence of an intermediate stage between the two, presented in paper 4, From Morpheme to Utterance. A further intermediate stage is presented in the writer's String Analysis of Sentence Structure, Papers on Formal Linguistics I, Mouton, The Hague 1962 (though it was developed after transformations, as a syntactic rep resentation for computational analysis). Generalization of both of these analyses leads to operator grammar, in which each sentence is derived in a uniform way as a partial ordering of the originally simple words which enter into it: Each step (least upper bound) of the partial ordering (of a word requiring another) forms a sentence which is a component of the sentence being analyzed.