We examine the prosodic incorporation of utterance-final vocatives in American English. Our report is based on two separate experiments to test the claim by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) ([1]) and Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg ([9]) that the phonetic manifestation of an L* tone on the final vocative is indicative of its contrastive behavior. Our first experiment, involving the dramatic readin...

Across languages, it is argued that vocative phrases are composed of a head selects noun phrase (NP) or determiner (DP) as its complement. Based on data from Standard Arabic, in addition to selecting NPs and DPs, the study reveals patterns where may select prepositional (PP). This class constructions appears situations speakers calling for help referred nɪdaʔ ʔalʔɪstɪɣaθa ‘Vocative Entreaty.’ f...

The article is devoted to elucidating the semantic and syntactic functions of vocative, which quite common in poetic idiolect Lesya Ukrainka. Its grammatical specificity substantiated – predominant use lyrical poetry with two secondary semantic-syntactic functions: identification accentuation addressee whom something reported, more limited exclamatory primary function subject potential action)....

The author analyses the case paradigm of Polish and Macedonian languages states that this paradigm, continuing old tradition classical languages, is composed three different segments: adverbal cases, adnominal (Genitive) “deontic” (Vocative); core set trio N-D-A – a confirmation anthropocentric character language

Abstract Both proper names and common nouns, when used as terms of address in Romanesco, can be preceded by the particle a ( Nando! ‘Hey, Fernando!’) undergo truncation poststress material (a) dottó’! doc!’). The article presents panchronic study this construction showing how vocative first arose providing synchronic analysis conditions under which they occur today. Vocative is widespread Centr...