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Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammarEdited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series 210] 2017
► pp. 155–176
Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German
Constantijn Kaland | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Restrictive and appositive relative clauses differ in their meaning and structure. The first restrict the class to which the antecedent refers, whereas the latter denote additional information on the antecedent. In terms of structure, this difference concerns the relation between antecedent and relative clause, which is either narrow (restrictives) or loose (appositives). How these relations are encoded in prosody is the topic of investigation. Although there is considerable agreement on what prosodic cues distinguish restrictives and appositives across languages, claims mainly come from prescriptive literature. The current study investigates the structure-prosody interface experimentally by means of perception tests for Dutch and German. Results indicate that these languages differ in how prosody signals structural cohesion or breaking.
Keywords: restrictive, appositive, relative clause, structure-prosody interface, Dutch, German
Published online: 12 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.10van
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.10van
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