Kuegler Focus affects the pitch register – focal lowering in German Frank Kügler, Potsdam University There is ample evidence that focus prominence yields higher scaling of pitch peaks in tone (e.g. Xu 1999 for Mandarin) and intonation languages (e.g. Féry & Kügler 2008 for German). These facts culminated in the proposal of intonational universals in terms of the effort code (Gussenhoven 2004). How

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Ladd What is prosody, anyway? Bob Ladd, University of Edinburgh Widespread use of the term prosody in linguistics dates only from the 1970s. Up until then, the term’s primary meaning concerned rules of poetic metre and other aspects of text-setting and poetic well-formedness. The shift from the poetic sense to the term’s current meaning began in the late 1960s and was more or less complete by abou

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Lei_Yeh_Fon The effect of prosody and dialectal variations on syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech Hsiang-Yu Lei, Yu-Chiao Yeh, and Janice Fon, National Taiwan University, New Taipei City Our previous work found two syllable-final nasal mergers, /in/→[iŋ] and /əŋ/→[ən], in Northern Taiwan Mandarin, and an additional /iŋ/→ [in] in Southern Taiwan Mandarin (Fon et al. 2

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Nagano-Madsen Towards modelling the acquisition of L2 prosody. Data from Swedish learners of Japanese Yasuko Nagano-Madsen, University of Gothenburg Based on the analysis of nine Swedish students learning Japanese as a second language, this paper attempts to provide the basic process of acquisition of L2 Japanese prosody. The ToBI components as well as other prosodic components related to syntax a

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Niebuhr Details in the perception of German prominence: Cue power estimates and contexts effects Oliver Niebuhr, Kiel University It is widely accepted for German and other languages that duration and F0 are the major prominence cues, with F0 being more important than duration. But, how much of a change in duration is actually necessary to counterbalance a given change in F0? Our experiment address

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Roll Word accents in a neurocognitive perspective Mikael Roll, Lund University We have found that word accent tones have a clear function in facilitating rapid word processing in Swedish. Thus, native speakers unconsciously use word accent tones to predict word structure, in particular which suffix a stem will have. Accent 1 is a stronger suffix-predictor than Accent 2, since it is associated with

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Schoetz-van de Weijer Human perception of prosody in domestic cat meows Susanne Schötz and Joost van de Weijer, Lund University This study examined human listeners’ ability to classify domestic cat vocalisations (meows) recorded in two different contexts; during feeding time (food related meows) and while waiting to visit a veterinarian (vet related meows). A pitch analysis showed a tendency for f

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Tuttle_Brucks Negative prosody in interior Alaskan Athabascan languages Siri Tuttle1, and Caleb Brucks2, 1University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2University of Regina Upper and Lower Tanana are Athabascan languages of interior Alaska spoken along the Tanana river. Both languages have sparse low tone from proto-Athabascan glottalization and in synchronic glottal environments, while intonation provides mos

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Yeh_Lei_Fon The effect of prosody and dialectal variations on syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech Hsiang-Yu Lei, Yu-Chiao Yeh, and Janice Fon, National Taiwan University, New Taipei City   Our previous work found two syllable-final nasal mergers,  /in/→[iŋ] and /əŋ/→[ən], in Northern Taiwan Mandarin, and an additional /iŋ/→ [in] in Southern Taiwan Mandarin (Fon et al

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Abstract for ConSOLE 9, December 8-10, 2000 Petra Burkhardt 35 Clark Street New Haven, CT 06511, USA 1-203-776-5473 petra.burkhardt@yale.edu Department of Linguistics, Yale University Logophors: Looking Outside of Syntax I present evidence for the extra-syntactic nature of logophoric reflexives in English, based on sentence processing experimentation. To this end, I investigate the distinction bet

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Quantifier Scope Interaction in Korean and English Introduction. The contrast in scope ambiguity between English and Korean in (1-2) has been a topic of research. Huang (1982: 220) and Hoji (1985: 248) argue that quantifier scope in languages like Korean, Chinese and Japanese is determined by the surface word order contra English. Recently, some researchers (Hornstein 1995 among others) proposed t

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Pronoun Doubling in the Dialects of Dutch We discuss subject pronoun doubling in the dialects of Dutch, of the type illustrated in (1). (1) Wij emme wij dat gedoan. wenom have wenom that done. æWe have done thatî In pronoun doubling constructions the second pronoun is always strong. The first pronoun can be either a clitic or a strong pronoun depending on the type of sentence it is in. The distrib

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S YNTACTIC EVIDENCE IN FAVOR OF DEG REES OF INCO RP O RATION IN [ N+EG IN] CONS TRUCTIO NS ABS TRACT F requent constr ucts of the type [ N + E GI N] pl ay an i mport ant r ol e in the gramm ar of Basque as product i ve verbal complex for ms. In thi s paper we present a num ber of [Noun + EGIN] const ructs of Basque that der ive from transi ti ve pr edicates. An Incorpor ati on hypothesi s is propo

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Genitive of Negation and the Syntax of Scope This paper presents a new approach to direct objects under sentential negation in Russian based on a set of neglected data. It has long been observed that in Russian, direct objects can receive Genitive case under negation (GN), alternating with the canonical Accusative case (ACC) (see Babby 1980, Pesetsky 1982, Babyonyshev 1996, Brown 1999, et al.) as

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Raising and Multiple Agree in Japanese, Icelandic and beyond 1.:A Problem of AGREE: Chomsky(1998,1999) proposes the new ‘movement-less’ theory of feature- checking AGREE. However, the mechanism of AGREE poses one serious but interesting problem under the theory of Defective Intervention Constraint (DIC)(1) (Chomsky1998,1999, Boeckx2000, Ura2000b).(‘>’ is a c-command relation). (1) * > > ( is a p

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On adjunction of a non-head to a head This paper will suggest that some head attracts a maximal projection even when the derivation operates the head adjunction (or the head-movement). In this case, the attracted maximal projection can be adjoined to a head by UriagerekaÕs (1999) Multiple-Spell- Out. Chomsky (1995) assumes the structure of DP, which has the possessive -"whose book" as (1), followi

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Elsi Kaiser: The syntax-pragmatics interface and Finnish ditransitive verbs In this paper I present an analysis of the syntax and pragmatics of Finnish ditransitive verbs. Finnish, an SVO language with flexible word order, permits both the direct object- indirect object (DO-IO) order (ex. (1)) and the indirect object-direct object (IO-DO) order (ex. (2)). According to my analysis, the base-generat

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1 Name: Tatjana Marvin Affiliation: MIT Address: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E39-245, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. E-mail: tatjana@mit.edu Past Participle Reduced Relatives as Small Clauses Introduction Several analyses have been proposed to characterize which participles can appear in Reduced Relatives (RR hereafter) and to account for the distribution in (1)

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Clitic Doubling: a Syntactic Effect of Morphological Case Dimitra Papangeli (uclydpa@ucl.ac.uk) Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL The problem: a. Clitic doubling is not attested in all languages with pronominal clitics: morphological case seems to be a prerequisite. b. Clitic doubling seems to violate the theta criterion: one theta role seems to be assigned to two arguments. The analysi

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Zo Toft 109299@soas.ac.uk SOAS, Thornhaugh St., Russell Sq., London WC1H 0XG Is there ever multiple wh-movement? Evidence from Superiority effects and Focus in Hungarian In trying to answer the questions ÔWhat moves where when in which languages and why?Õ many linguists have been kept busy over the years. With the growth of generative linguistics and an increasing amount of research into languages

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