Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese

Our investigation focuses on several types of structural ambiguity in European Portuguese. The materials include sentences with set-divider adverbs ambiguous as to the direction of syntactic attachment, adjunct and complement PPs ambiguous as to the level of syntactic embedding, nonrestrictive claus...

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Autor principal:	Marina Vigário
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2003
Materias:	Prosody intonation prosodic phrasing syntax-phonology interface disambiguation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1e4279ac27974cb0961fd2e8f1f2d8272021-11-27T10:49:19ZProsody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese10.5565/rev/catjl.521695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/1e4279ac27974cb0961fd2e8f1f2d8272003-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/52https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719Our investigation focuses on several types of structural ambiguity in European Portuguese. The materials include sentences with set-divider adverbs ambiguous as to the direction of syntactic attachment, adjunct and complement PPs ambiguous as to the level of syntactic embedding, nonrestrictive clauses with local and non-local possible antecedents, and relative clauses ambiguous as to their restrictive/non-restrictive meaning. Besides providing a prosodic description of sentences with these various sorts of ambiguity, the relation between prosody and syntactic structure is addressed. It is concluded that structural ambiguity is not always cued by prosody, and it may be resolved by prosodic means that are optional. Additionally, some options on sentence partition in intonational phrases are only available under some interpretations, and in specific configurations I-breaks may not be inserted (namely, between a head and an adjacent complement or modifier). In all cases studied intonational phrase level properties play a crucial role in sentence disambiguation. An intonational phrase boundary after set-divider adverbs indicates leftattachment and between a constituent and the preceding material implies non-local attachment. These facts are seen to follow in a principled way from the conditions on the formation of intonational phrases.Marina VigárioUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleProsodyintonationprosodic phrasingsyntax-phonology interfacedisambiguationPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2 (2003)
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topic	Prosody intonation prosodic phrasing syntax-phonology interface disambiguation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Prosody intonation prosodic phrasing syntax-phonology interface disambiguation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Marina Vigário Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese
description	Our investigation focuses on several types of structural ambiguity in European Portuguese. The materials include sentences with set-divider adverbs ambiguous as to the direction of syntactic attachment, adjunct and complement PPs ambiguous as to the level of syntactic embedding, nonrestrictive clauses with local and non-local possible antecedents, and relative clauses ambiguous as to their restrictive/non-restrictive meaning. Besides providing a prosodic description of sentences with these various sorts of ambiguity, the relation between prosody and syntactic structure is addressed. It is concluded that structural ambiguity is not always cued by prosody, and it may be resolved by prosodic means that are optional. Additionally, some options on sentence partition in intonational phrases are only available under some interpretations, and in specific configurations I-breaks may not be inserted (namely, between a head and an adjacent complement or modifier). In all cases studied intonational phrase level properties play a crucial role in sentence disambiguation. An intonational phrase boundary after set-divider adverbs indicates leftattachment and between a constituent and the preceding material implies non-local attachment. These facts are seen to follow in a principled way from the conditions on the formation of intonational phrases.
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author	Marina Vigário
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title	Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese
title_short	Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese
title_full	Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese
title_fullStr	Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese
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title_sort	prosody and sentence disambiguation in european portuguese
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2003
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Prosody and sentence disambiguation in European Portuguese

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