Publications
Publication details [#1044]
Ballmer, Thomas T. 1980. The role of pauses and suprasegmentals in a grammar. In Dechert, Hans W. and Manfred Raupach, eds. Temporal variables in speech: Studies in honour of Frieda Goldman-Eisler. Mouton. pp. 211–220.
Annotation
An attempt to demonstrate that pauses form a distinct grammatical category with phonetico-phonological, morpho-syntactic, and semantico-pragmatic aspects.