Kösling, Kristina: Prominence assignment in English triconstituent compoundsDie Betonung dreigliedriger Komposita im Englischen. 2011
Inhalt
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Prominence assignment in English nominal compounds
- Prominence assignment in biconstituent Noun+Noun compounds
- Prominence assignment in triconstituent Noun+Noun+Noun compounds
- General Methodology
- How to determine prominence patterns of English compounds?
- Pitch measurements
- Discourse factors
- Mixed-effects models
- Corpus Study
- Methodology
- The data: The Boston University Radio Speech Corpus
- Branching direction
- Acoustic measurements
- Prediction: Lexical Category Prominence Rule
- Statistical procedure
- Results
- Discussion
- Summary and conclusion
- Experimental data
- Production Experiment 1: Embedded Prominence Hypothesis (EPH)
- Production Experiment 2: IC-Prominence Hypothesis (IPH)
- Methodology
- Results
- Analogy: avenue vs. street
- Analogy: pie vs. argument-head compounds
- Semantics: IC2 during IC1
- Semantics: IC2 is located at IC1
- Individual item variation
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Summary and conclusion
- Data
- Mixed-effects models, regression models and likelihood ratio tests
- Bibliography