Intonational phrasing is constrained by meaning, not balance

This paper evaluates two classes of hypotheses about how people prosodically segment utterances: (1) meaning-based proposals, with a focus on Watson and Gibson's (2004) proposal, according to which speakers tend to produce boundaries before and after long constituents; and (2) balancing proposa...

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Main Authors: Breen, Mara, Watson, Duane, Gibson, Edward A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73986
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X

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