The effect of focus prominence on phrasing
Michael Wagner, Michael Mcauliffe
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004863
October 2019
Prosody simultaneously encodes different kinds of information about an utterance, including the type of speech act (which, in English, often affects the choice of int
onational tune), the syntactic constituent structure (which mainly affects prosodic phrasing), and the location of semantic focus (which mainly affects the relative p
rosodic prominence between words). The syntactic and semantic functional dimensions (speech act, constituency, focus) are orthogonal to each other, but to which exten
t their prosodic correlates are remains controversial. This paper reports on a production experiment that crosses these three dimensions to look for interactions, con
centrating on interactions between focus prominence and phrasing. The results provide evidence that interactions are more limited than many current theories of senten
ce prosody would predict, and support a theory that keeps different prosodic dimensions representationally separate.
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004863 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Journal of Phonetics |
keywords: | prosody prominence focus phrasing intonation deaccenting, phonology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004845 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Submitted. |
keywords: | manuscript, medieval, translation, botany, syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004842 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Language Sciences Press (forthcoming) |
keywords: | computational modeling; exemplars; diachrony; articulatory phonology; speech perception, phonology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004839 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | |
keywords: | phonology, vowel harmony, locality, transparency, contrast, uyghur, phonology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004837 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics |
keywords: | subregular phonology, subregular, phonology, stress, tier-based strictly local, functions, transductions, metrical grid theory, abkhaz, unbounded stress, culminativity, mathematical linguistics, phonology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004834 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics |
keywords: | phonology, phonotactics, neural networks, sonority sequencing |






Kodner (2019) – Modeling Language Change in the St. Louis Corridor
Modeling Language Change in the St. Louis Corridor
Jordan Kodner
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004819
October 2019
The St. Louis Corridor extending from Chicago, Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri has been described as a “breach” through the Midlands dialect region because of the presence of Inland North features there. Most notably, features associated with the Northern Cities Shift suddenly appeared in Corridor cities in the mid-20th century, but they have since largely retreated. A recent population study has uncovered complex relationships between the Corridor’s geography and this pattern of advance and retreat, and this work elaborates on that investigation through computational simulations of the Corridor’s population structure. Implementing a new network-analytic population model, I find support for Friedman’s original hypothesis that migration into cities along Route 66 imported Inland North features into the Corridor first before it spread outward to communities farther away from the route and uncover questions about the Corridor’s population that merit further study.
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004819 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | accepted to Language Variation and Change |
keywords: | computational modeling, variation, northern cities shift, phonology |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004815 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Manuscript |
keywords: | complex segments, learnability, phonology, computational phonology, phonotactics, phonetics, affricates, prenasalized stops, labiovelars, greek, shona, latin, tswana, turkish, hebrew, english, mbay, ngbaka, fijian, sundanese, quechua |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004802 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | |
keywords: | metrics, phonology, metrical phonology, meter, prosody, performance |
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Reference: | lingbuzz/004801 (please use that when you cite this article) |
Published in: | Leipzig University |
keywords: | nuer, tone, morpho-phonology, ot, strata, defectiveness, f0 alignment, perception, morphology, phonology |