Linguists have often observed prosody-syntax interactions in #informationstructure marking, but do speakers rely less on #prosody when #clefting already marks focus? In #Mandarin #Chinese, such tradeoffs aren't found in production or perception: doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess
No prosody-syntax trade-offs: Prosody marks focus in Mandarin cleft constructions
In line with the idea that language has evolved to be efficient and to avoid redundancy, syntactic means of marking information structure have been derived from prosodic ones, and vice versa, for many...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Linguists have often observed prosody-syntax interactions in #informationstructure marking, but do speakers rely less on #prosody when #clefting already marks focus? In #Mandarin #Chinese, such tradeoffs aren't found in production or perception: doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess
the path between two structural projections does not depend on the number of transitions. It can consist of a single transition or a complex sequence of intermediate transitions connecting the same projections and occupying a certain scale of their execution
#Projections #InformationStructure
#Projections #InformationStructure
what has been proven does not mean that every possible combination of structures is known. changing the fundamental variables of reference does not change existing physics, so I see no problem with such an approach.
September 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
the path between two structural projections does not depend on the number of transitions. It can consist of a single transition or a complex sequence of intermediate transitions connecting the same projections and occupying a certain scale of their execution
#Projections #InformationStructure
#Projections #InformationStructure
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January 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM