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