This paper focuses on the Brazilian Portuguese (PB) prosodic phrasing and has two main goals: (1) to find a correlation between constituents boundaries, as described by Prosodic Hierarchy Theory (Nespor & Vogel, 2007 [1986], a.o.) perception production of spontaneous reading speech breaks, (2) describe phonological characteristics syntactic ranking perceived non edges. The corpus under anal...

In model-based approaches, Abstract User Interfaces enable the specification of interactive applications in a modalityindependent manner, which is then often used for authoring multi-device interactive applications. In this paper we discuss two solutions for exploiting abstract UIs. We consider the MARIA language for such comparison. The overall aim is to improve the efficiency of the model-bas...

There have been numerous studies on the linguistic properties of the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese and the semantic meanings of this construction. However, there have not been as adequate studies on the acquisition of the BA, especially by L2 Chinese learners. This study examines the acquisition of some linguistic properties of the BA construction by the nature of those properties: some a...

The goal of this study is to investigate the structuring of speech in terms of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous dialogues in Swedish. In particular, the relation between boundaries as perceived by listeners, and their acoustic and linguistic realizations as uttered by speakers is examined.

One central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax. Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a less well-studied clause type, exclamatives. We argue that there is no particular element in syntax responsible for introducing force. Rather, there are two fundamental syntactic components which identify a clause ...

This paper deals with alternative questions in English, and proposes an analysis employing an alternative operator. I claim that the alternative question interpretation is not obtained by such syntactic processes as movement or gapping, but by scoping of an alternative operator that originates from the conjunction or. Accordingly, while the syntactic forms of alternative questions contain nothi...