This paper examines whether lip protrusion is affected by initial strengthening of rounded vowels in French. Three speakers produced sentences containing the vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, y, ø, œ, u, o, ɔ/ at the beginning of different prosodic constituents: Intonational Phrase (IP), Accentual Phrase (AP) and Word (W). Using video and Qualisys motion capture data, three parameters (lip protrusion, area/l...

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We propose a framework, called OM pairs, for the formalization of metareasoning. OM pairs allow us to generate deductively pairs composed of an object theory and a metatheory related via a so called reflection principle. This is done by imposing, via appropriate reflection rules, the relation we want to hold between the object theory and the metatheory. In this paper we concentrate on the proof...

Finding an appropriate textbook for an introductory course on syntactic theory has become difficult. Since most attempt to portray a more or less current version of generative transforma-tional theory (TG), they tend to become obsolete fairly rapidly and the trace-per-morpheme average in phrase structure representations rises dramatically as a function of up-to-dateness. Given that the trace-he...

According to the Focus Projection theory, a focused word projects its focus to a larger syntactic constituent. When a Verb Phrase (VP) has two arguments (e.g., gave a boy a book), focus on the verb-final argument licenses focus on the VP. According to the Information Packaging theory of focus applied to Korean, focus on a theme argument licenses focus on the VP. However, production data of Kore...

We found o direct relationship between voriotion in informants’ grommoticality intuitions about pronoun coreference and variation in the same informants’ use of a clause segmentation strategy during sentence perception. It hos been proproposed that ‘c-command’, a structural principle defined in terms of constituent dominance relations, constrains within-sentence coreference between pronouns and...