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Volume 1, Issue 1 (2007) Pp. 1–34.
- Extending the Prosodic Hierarchy: Evidence from Lushootseed narrative
- by David Beck, University of Alberta, and David Bennett, IBM Canada
In the traditional Prosodic Hierarchy, the topmost level is the
Utterance. This paper presents evidence from Lushootseed narrative for
a higher-level prosodic constituent, the Phonological
Paragraph. Phonological Paragraphs are marked by patterns of
Utterance-level F₀ peaks, which decline over the length of the
Paragraph and are reset to mark the beginning of a new discourse-level
prosodic unit. Phonetic evidence for Phonological Paragraphs is
supported by morphosyntactic data and coincides with components of
narrative structure. These patterns, therefore, can not represent a
random or involuntary epiphenomenon, but must be considered an
integral part of the grammar.
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