Prosodic Cues to the Syntactic Structure of Subordinate Clauses in Swedish

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNordic Prosody: Proceedings of the IXth Conference, Lund 2004
EditorsGösta Bruce, Merle Horne
PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Group
Pages195-204
ISBN (Print)3-631-53744-1
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.
The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Free keywords

  • Syntax
  • intonation
  • prosody

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