Topic
Juncture
About: Juncture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 341 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6790 citations.
Papers published on a yearly basis
1 / 2
Papers
Book•
3 Jul 1984TL;DR: A fundamentally new approach to the theory of phonology and its relation to syntax is developed in this book, which is the first to address the question of the relation between syntax and phonology in a systematic way.
Abstract: A fundamentally new approach to the theory of phonology and its relation to syntax is developed in this book, which is the first to address the question of the relation between syntax and phonology in a systematic way.This general theory differs from its predecessors in the generative tradition in several respects. By arguing that the intonational structure of a sentence determines certain aspects of its stress pattern or rhythmic structure, and not vice versa, it provides a novel view of the intonation-stress relation. It also offers a new theory of the focus-prosody relation that solves a variety of classic puzzles and involves an appeal to the place of a focused constituent in the predicate-argument structure of the sentence. The book also includes other novel features, among them a development of the metrical grid theory of stress (including a complete treatment of English word stress in this framework), the representation of juncture in terms of "silent" positions in the metrical grid (with a treatment of sandhi in terms of this rhythmic juncture), and a "rhythmic" nonsyntactic approach to the basic phonology of function words in EnglishElisabeth 0. Selkirk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This book is tenth in the series, Current Studies in Linguistics.
3,022 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables but delete them before weak syllables, and that boundaries inserted before strong words produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted between strong and weak words produce grammatical words.
548 citations
1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: This paper found that listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables but delete them before weak syllables, and that boundaries inserted before strong words produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted between strong and weak words produce grammatical words.
Abstract: Segmentation of continuous speech into its component words is a nontrivial task for listeners. Previous work has suggested that listeners develop heuristic segmentation procedures based on experience with the structure of their language; for English, the heuristic is that strong syllables (containing full vowels) are most likely to be the initial syllables of lexical words, whereas weak syllables (containing central, or reduced, vowels) are nonword-initial, or, if word-initial, are grammatical words. This hypothesis is here tested against natural and laboratory-induced missegmentations of continuous speech. Precisely the expected pattern is found: listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables but delete them before weak syllables; boundaries inserted before strong syllables produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted before weak syllables produce grammatical words.
412 citations
Journal Article•
240 citations
TL;DR: A lack of theory in the implementation literature is partially a function of the policy sciences having inherited a tradition of descriptive... as mentioned in this paper, who have constantly bemoaned a lack of theoretical theory in this area.
Abstract: Meta-reviews of the implementation literature have constantly bemoaned a lack of theory in this area. This is partially a function of the policy sciences having inherited a tradition of descriptive...
174 citations
Related Topics (5)
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 |
| 2024 | 42 |
| 2023 | 42 |
| 2022 | 71 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2020 | 17 |