The Role of Intonational Prosody in Grammar and Sentence Processing

Marc Steedman

Division of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

Montag, 22.01.2001, 17 c.t. Uhr, Hörsaal 9
Intonation structure in languages like English and German has generally been regarded as distinct from syntactic structure. Similarly, the meaning of intonational tunes has generally been assigned to a pragmatic component of information structure distinct from the compositional semantics of predicate- argument relations.

The paper follows earlier work in showing that intonation structure can be subsumed by surface or derivational structure, and that information structure can be brought within the associated compositional semantics using a novel syntactic-semantic formalism called Combinatory Categorial Grammar. The paper goes on to discuss why grammars should be like this and what the practical implications for spoken language processing are. I'll try to say something about German along the way.

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