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Post-nominal modifiers: Transformations and phonology

Post-nominal modifiers: Transformations and phonology Abstract In my Introduction to Linguistic Structures, I reported the results of the first of a series of tests on sentences with restrictive and non-restrictive elements as modifiers of a noun subject.1 I have since then carried these tests somewhat further, and can now report more far-reaching results. The tests consisted in pronouncing possibly ambiguous sentences with various types of pitch and terminal patterns, to see which, if any, of these patterns resulted in convergence of identification by groups of native speakers. The results, simply stated, are that only two pitch-terminal patterns are unambiguous phonological signals, and that of three types of sentence where a following element may be functionally restrictive or non-restrictive, there is one in which even the otherwise clear phonological signals fail, leaving the sentence completely ambiguous. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

Post-nominal modifiers: Transformations and phonology

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Post-nominal modifiers: Transformations and phonology

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Abstract In my Introduction to Linguistic Structures, I reported the results of the first of a series of tests on sentences with restrictive and non-restrictive elements as modifiers of a noun subject.1 I have since then carried these tests somewhat further, and can now report more far-reaching results. The tests consisted in pronouncing possibly ambiguous sentences with various types of pitch and terminal patterns, to see which, if any, of these patterns resulted in convergence of...
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Taylor & Francis
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1949-0763
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10.1080/03740463.1966.10416011
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Abstract

Abstract In my Introduction to Linguistic Structures, I reported the results of the first of a series of tests on sentences with restrictive and non-restrictive elements as modifiers of a noun subject.1 I have since then carried these tests somewhat further, and can now report more far-reaching results. The tests consisted in pronouncing possibly ambiguous sentences with various types of pitch and terminal patterns, to see which, if any, of these patterns resulted in convergence of identification by groups of native speakers. The results, simply stated, are that only two pitch-terminal patterns are unambiguous phonological signals, and that of three types of sentence where a following element may be functionally restrictive or non-restrictive, there is one in which even the otherwise clear phonological signals fail, leaving the sentence completely ambiguous.

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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