Intonational Signals of Subordination

Intonational Meaning

Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior

It has long been understood that culture shapes individuals' behavior, but how this is accomplished in the human brain has remained largely unknown. To examine this, we made use of a well-established cross-cultural difference in behavior: American culture tends to reinforce dominant behavior whereas, conversely, Japanese culture tends to reinforce subordinate behavior. In 17 Americans and 17 Ja...

Intonational Phonology of Georgian

This paper proposes a prosodic structure and the tonal pattern of Georgian, the national language of Georgia. The language has three prosodic units above the Word: Intonation Phrase (IP), Intermediate Phrase (ip), and Accentual Phrase (AP). All these units are marked by a boundary tone, but an AP in Georgian is unique typologically in that it has pitch accent linked to a stressed syllable and p...

1 Subordination at the Interface : the Quasi - Subordination Hypothesis

The subordination of clauses, and the recursion which results, lies at the heart of linguistic representation. Yet there are many aspects of subordination that are not fully understood. An enduring puzzle is that some clauses which appear to be structurally subordinate nevertheless pattern with main clauses in certain, but not all, respects. This paper posits that such clauses, which we term “q...

Subordination by convex functions