Prosodic Structure and Phrasing of Function Words in English

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Young-il Oh
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제18권 3호, 253~276쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.31

영문 초록

This paper explores the possibilities of prosodifying function words in English. It is well known that function words can be manifested in their strong and weak forms as a function of accent and position in a sentence. It is also known that weak forms of function words, which are not phrase-final, have a clitic status in prosodic structure, while strong forms of function words in phrase-final position have the status of a prosodic word on their own (Inkelas and Zec 1993, Selkirk 1984, 1996). Thus, the prosodic phrasing of function words has been accounted for by the syntactic structural factor itself. However, given the results that strong forms of function words can be subdivided into phrase-final and accented types (Oh 2010), the prosodic phrasing of function words should be reconsidered with a syntactic and semantic approaches. Briefly reviewing various approaches to phrasing in prosodic phonology, this paper investigates an accent effect on the prosodic phrasing of function words and suggests a future experiment which can reveal how function words are prosodified with their adjacent words.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Prosodic Phonology and Function Works

3. The 3-Way Distinction of Function Words: Oh (2010)

4. Mismatch between Syntactic and Prosodic Boundary

5. Conclusion and the Future Experimental Design

References

키워드

function words strong forms phrasing prosodic phonology