Prosodic Cues to the Syntactic Structure of Subordinate Clauses in Swedish

• 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.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Syntax

intonation

prosody

Publikations- och innehållstyp

kon (ämneskategori)

vet (ämneskategori)