TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dehé,Nicole
TI  - Parentheticals in spoken English: the syntax prosody relation 
T2  - Studies in English language
SN  - 9780521761925 (Hardback)
AV  - P293.35 .D34 2014
U1  - 425.DEH 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Parenthetical constructions
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Spoken English
KW  - Syntax
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-246) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Parentheticals in English: introduction; 2. The syntax and prosody of parentheticals; 3. Parentheticals, intonational phrasing and prosodic theory; 4. Data analysis, results and discussion; 5. Final discussion
N2  - "Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with relevant theoretical work at the syntax-prosody interface. It offers a detailed prosodic analysis of six types of parentheticals - full parenthetical clauses, non-restrictive relative clauses, nominal appositions, comment clauses, reporting verbs, and question tags, all taken from the spoken part of the British Component of the International Corpus of English. To date, the common assumption is that by default, parentheticals are prosodically phrased separately, an assumption which, as this study shows, is not always in line with the predictions made by current prosodic theory. The present study provides new empirical evidence for the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spontaneous and semi-spontaneous spoken English, and offers new implications for a theory of linguistic interfaces"--
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