Duanmu Prosody and word length in Chinese San Duanmu, University of Michigan The eminent Swedish sinologist Bernhard Karlgren (1918) made an insightful observation of an unusual property of Chinese: Many Chinese words have two synonymous forms, one short (monosyllabic) and one long (disyllabic), such as jian ‘see’ and kan-jian ‘look-see’. The long form is made by adding another morpheme to the sho

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Féry.doc The disambiguating role of prosody in relative clauses Caroline Féry, Goethe University Frankfurt I will address the following puzzle: In the syntactic literature on relative clauses, it is tacitly or explicitly admitted that users of a language share some implicit knowledge about the relationship between prosody and syntax. As a result, overt prosodic phrasing should help speakers to mak

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Karlsson-House Prosodic boundaries and spontaneous narratives Anastasia Karlsson1 and David House2, 1Lund University, 2Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm The study presented here is a part of a larger project in which we investigate how word order, intonation and morphology collaborate in conveying information structure in a set of typologically different languages. Languages are group

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Riad abstract NGmc accent A phonological typology of North Germanic accent Tomas Riad, Stockholm University North Germanic tone accent has been typologized on the basis of phonetic notions like ‘number of peaks in accent 2’ (Gårding & Lindblad 1973, Bruce & Gårding 1978), and ‘value of first tone in accent 1’ (Fintoft et al. 1978). The description of tone accent has also often been based on functi

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Romoeren-Chen Prosodic focus marking in Swedish children Anna Sara H. Romøren and Aoju Chen, Utrecht University According to the Lund model of Swedish intonation [1], focus is marked by adding a floating high tone to the lexical accent of a focal word, and by downstepping post- focal accents1. Research on prosodic development in Swedish children has primarily been concerned with word prosody [2,3,

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Soederstroem Testing predictions – studying word accents and morphology in Swedish Pelle Söderström, Lund University Preliminary results will be reported from a study which investigated how Central Swedish word accents are used in on-line speech processing to predict upcoming information. Participants listened to sentences and judged whether the target noun was singular (suffix associated with Acc

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Svensson Lundmark Constant tonal alignment in Swedish word accent II Malin Svensson Lundmark, Lund University Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonation languages suggest that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segmental string, while the timing of H varies. This study investigates if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the S

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Tronnier-Zetterholm Intelligibility of Swedish word accents produced by L2-speakers with tonal and non-tonal L1s – a case study Mechtild Tronnier1 and Elisabeth Zetterholm2 1Lund University and 2Linnaeus University This contribution presents a case study on how well speakers of languages of a different tonal typology manage to produce the two tonal word accents in L2- Swedish. Some previous studie

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Uneson Parallel words for cross-Germanic comparison of lexical stress Marcus Uneson, Lund University Given two languages, some translation equivalents may intuitively be recognized as ‘parallel’ by a naïve speaker of both, that is, as representatives of the ‘same’ word. Parallel words in languages A and B are typically due to either historial cognateship or to loan: direct loan between them; or, i

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van de Weijer Consonant repetition within words Joost van de Weijer, Lund University A well-­‐known phonological principle is the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) which prohibits adjacent identical elements. Originally the OCP was applied at the prosodic level, that is the absence of adjacent identical tones, but thereafter it has been applied to other language features as well, including other

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A-traces and semantic interpretation Adolfo Ausn, University of Connecticut Linguistics Department, 341 Mansfield Rd., U-1145, Storrs CT 06269-1145, USA, ada96002@sp.uconn.edu Lasnik (1999) makes the controversial proposal that A-movement does not leave a trace. His proposal is based on the assumption that there are no A-movement reconstruction effects (Chomsky (1995)). This assumption has been ch

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1 The Grammar of the Possession Link: Modern Hebrew yeS Constructions: Nora Boneh, Universit de Paris III Possessive constructions across languages make use either of HAVE or BE as the possession link. With the first, the possessor surfaces with Nominative case while the possessum bears Accusative case, with the second the possessor receives Dative case from the preposition accompanying BE, and th

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Relatives and There-Insertion Alastair Butler (ajb125@york.ac.uk) Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, U.K. 1 Introduction This paper offers a solution to why certain relative clauses place restrictions on their determiners. The solution is purely semantic and crucially depends on operations of control. While an ordinary relative like (1) places

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A Unified Account of A- and A'-Reconstruction: Evidence from German Introduction: It has often been argued that there seems to be an A- vs. A'-distinction with regard to reconstruction (cf. Chomsky (1995), Kim (1996), Epstein et al. (1998), Lasnik (1998), and Fox (1999, 2000)). This claim was usually based on contrasts like the one between (1-a) and (1-b), and led some linguists to conclude that t

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On modal nature of Attributive Nominal Constructions Anala Garca & Jos Luis Mndez Universidad Autnoma de Madrid and Instituto Unviersitario Ortega y Gasset Linguistics Department, Ctra. de Colmenar, km 15 28049 Madrid e-mail: joselu2@batch-pc.es Tel: 915780028 The fact that there is a structural parallelism between DP and CP (Abney 1987, Szcabolsci 1992, Kayne 1995) is widely accepted. Thus, it sh

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1 Bound Variable Interpretation and the Degree of Accessibility Natural languages may employ different kinds of lexical items for a bound variable interpretation. For example, it is generally agreed that both pronouns and reflexives in English can be construed as a bound variable, as shown in (1) and (2), yet other lexical items such as an epithet or a definite description headed by a demonstrativ

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Perception Verbs in West Germanic and Language Change In this paper, I first establish the syntactic structures of perception verb complements in English, building on the work of Akmajian 1977, Gee 1977, Higginbotham 1983, Neale 1988, Hsiao 2000, among others. I argue that in English, the argument structure of such perceptual reports is ambiguous between a double object construction and that of a

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1 Karen Lahousse, Aspirant van het F.W.O.-Vlaanderen K.U. Leuven, Belgium Departement Lingustiek Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Karen.Lahousse@arts.kuleuven.ac.be Replacing expletive pro by verb movement in Romance languages ConSOLE, 8-10 December 2000 University of Lund, Sweden 0. INTRODUCTION This talk concerns expletive pro as it is alleged to appear in the subject position of sentences

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Measure DP Adverbials, Aktionsart, and Functional Structure DP adverbials have long posed some vexing analytical challenges, largely because they manifest seemingly contrary nominal and adverbial properties. This paper begins with the observation that certain DP adverbials constitute a natural class distinguished by several puzzling characteristics: obligatorily narrow scope, low structural positi

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1 Local Licensing and Feature Copy in Language Production Roland Pfau (Inst. fr Dt. Sprache & Literatur II, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt, Postfach 11 19 32, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, pfau@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de) In the generative tradition, there is a lot of talking about the ªpsychological reality of grammarsæ. Still, psycholinguists working on the development of production models hardly eve

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