The influence of syntax on prosodic structure in Japanese
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1994-04
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Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics
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This paper examines the relationship between the syntactic and prosodic structures of utterances which are structurally ambiguous. Two experiments were conducted involving ambiguous noun phrases (right-versus left-branching) and relative clause constructions containing an adjunct with ambiguous scope of modification. Results of careful examination of the F0 contours and downstepping patterns reveal that inter-and intra-speaker variability as well as depth of syntactic embedding are important factors in determining the prosodic phrasing.
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Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 44 (1994), 191-223.