The Syntax-phonology interface as the Key to Metricality: Evidence from Taiwanese Folk Songs

The Syntax - Phonology Interface *

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the syntax-phonology interface in detail: the relation between syntactic constituency and the prosodic constituent domains for sentence-level phonological and phonetic phenomena. Two further core aspects, which rely on an ...

Evidence from Rebétika and Folk Songs

In Arvaniti and Joseph (2000) we studied the variability in the pronunciation of the Greek phones spelled mp, nt, gg/gk, which in speech are said to consist of a nasal consonant, e.g., m, and a “voiced” stop consonant, e.g., b. Our data showed that the presence of the nasal depended largely on age, with younger speakers producing many more nasalless instances of these phones than older speakers...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

The Phonology-Syntax Interface in North Kyungsang Korean

Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong.

Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and genetic similarities between auditory-vocal learning in birds and human infants. Recently, the linguistic parallels between birdsong and spoken language have begun to be investigated. Although both birdsong and human...