Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan

Name: Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
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Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions for Glosses and Translations
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Foundations and basic assumptions
1.1.1 Central Catalan
1.1.2 Clitic left- and clitic right-dislocations in Catalan
1.1.3 Information structure
1.1.4.1 Preverbal subjects are in an A-position
1.1.4.2 All-new contexts
1.1.4.3 Islandhood
1.1.4.4 Subjects Present for Disambiguation
1.1.4.5 Non-referential QPs as preverbal subjects
1.1.4.6 Unambiguous wide scope
1.1.4. Preverbal subjects are not dislocated
1.2. Outline of the empirical results and their theoretical analysis
Chapter 2. Fundamental aspects of Catalan intonation
2.1. Foundations of the theoretical model
2.1.1 The autosegmental-metrical (AM) model
2.1.2 The tone and break indices transcription system (ToBI)
2.2. The tone and break indices transcription system for Catalan
2.2.1 Pitch accents in Catalan
2.2.2 Suprasegmental prosodic levels in Catalan
2.3. Boundary cues in Catalan
2.3.1 Boundary cues in romance languages
2.3.2 The continuation rise
2.3.3 The sustained pitch
2.3.4 Preboundary lengthening
2.3.5 Pauses
2.3.6 Complex boundary tones
2.3.7 Organization of boundary cues
2.4. Assumptions on phonological inventory of Catalan
Chapter 3. Phrasing patterns in Catalan SVO structures
3.1. Background and experiment hypothesis
3.1.1 Detailed background of Catalan phrasing patterns
3.1.2 The hypotheses
3.2. General outline of the experiments
3.3. Experiments on simple and complex SVO phrasing
3.3.1 Specific experiment design
3.3.2 Results - boundary cues
3.3.3 Results - phrasing patterns
3.3.3.1 The simple SVO experiment
3.3.3.2 Discussion
3.3.3.3 The complex SVO experiment
3.3.3.4 Discussion
3.3.4 Conclusion
3.4. An analysis for SVO and embedded SVO phrasing
3.4.1 Optimality-theoretic constraints of the Syntax-Prosody interface
3.4.2 Accounting for simple SVO structures in Catalan
3.4.2.1 The relevant constraints
3.4.2.2 Motivation for the constraint hierarchy
3.4.2.3 Prieto's (2005) OT tables for SVO phrasing
3.4.2.4 Modifications of Prieto's approach to SVO phrasing
3.4.3 Accounting for complex SVO structures in Catalan
3.4.3.1 The relevant constraints and their rankings
3.4.3.1.1 Reconciling long objects and Max-Bin-End - a tentative approach
3.4.3.2 Optionality in Optimality Theory
3.4.3.3 Stochastic Optimality Theory
3.4.3.4 Applying Stochastic Optimality Theory to the phrasing of complex sentences
3.4.3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4. Syntactic aspects of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation
4.1. Syntactic aspects of clitic left-dislocations (CLLD) and clitic right-dislocations (CLRD)
4.1.1 Three syntactic approaches to CLLD and CLRD
4.1.2 CLLD and CLRD asymmetries
4.1.2.1 Licensing of negative words
4.1.2.2 Binding
4.1.2.3 Obviation effects
4.1.2.3.1 A theoretical approach to the influence of CLLD on obviation
4.1.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5. Prosodic phrasing of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation
5.1. Background
5.2. The hypotheses
5.3. The experiment
5.4. Results
5.4.1 Results
5.4.2 Summary
5.4.3 Discussion
5.5. A theoretical approach to Catalan dislocation structures
5.5.1 Two further constraints: align-top,R and align-vp,r
5.5.2 The constraint hierarchy
5.6. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Left-dislocations and preverbal subjects
6.1. The hypotheses
6.2. The experiment
6.3. Results
6.4. Discussion and conclusion
Chapter 7. Conclusion and outlook
References
Appendices
Appendix A - Simple SVO Experiment (i.e. Part 1. a)
A-1 Data (12 Sentences)
A-2 Results
Appendix B - Complex SVO Experiment (i.e. Part 1. b)
B-1 Data (12 Sentences)
B-2 Results
Appendix C - CLLD & CLRD Experiment
C-1 Data
C-2 Results
CLRD
Appendix D - CLLD vs. S Experiment (i.e. Part 1. c)
D-1 Data
D-2 Results
S NEW
Index
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