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Prosodic Cues to the Syntactic Structure of Subordinate Clauses in Swedish

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Author

Editor

  • Gösta Bruce
  • Merle Horne

Summary, in English

Swedish subordinate clauses introduced by 'att' are syntactically and semantically ambiguous when they do not contain clause level adverbials or topicalized elements. In this study, evidence that such clauses are disambiguated in their prosodic realization is presented.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

195-204

Publication/Series

Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the IXth Conference, Lund 2004

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Syntax
  • intonation
  • prosody

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 3-631-53744-1