Self-embedding and complexity in oral registers

This article reports the results of a study on the self-embedding depth of nominal, verbal and clausal projections in spoken corpora of German. We compared two spoken registers featuring public and non-public (i.e. private) conversation by measuring the depth of self-embedding in C, V, and N project...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth Verhoeven, Nico Lehmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-08-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5061/