Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2013-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Prominence in triconstituent compounds: Pitch contours and linguistic theory
Description: According to the widely accepted Lexical Category Prominence Rule  (LCPR), prominence assignment to triconstituent compounds                      depends on the branching direction. Left-branching  compounds, that is, compounds with a left-hand complex constituent, are                      held to have highest prominence on the left-most  constituent, whereas right-branching compounds have highest prominence  on                      the second of the three constituents. The LCPR is,  however, only poorly empirically supported. The present paper tests a  new                      hypothesis concerning the prominence of  triconstituent compounds and suggests a new methodology for the  empirical investigation                      of compound prominence. According to this  hypothesis, the prominence pattern of the embedded compound has a  decisive influence                      on the prominence of the whole compound. Using a  mixed-effects generalized additive model for the analysis of the pitch  movements,                      it is shown that all triconstituent compounds have  an accent on the first constituent irrespective of branching, and that                      the placement of a second, or even a third, accent  is dependent on the prominence pattern of the embedded compound. The  LCPR                      is wrong.   Language and Speech  
Author: Kristina Kosling and Gero Kunter and Harald Baayen and Ingo Plag
Maintainer: Gero Kunter <gero.kunter@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Kristina", family = "Kosling", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Gero", family = "Kunter", email = "gero.kunter@uni-duesseldorf.de", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Harald", family = "Baayen", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Ingo", family = "Plag", role = c("aut")))
Package: KoslingKunterBaayenPlag2013
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
