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Interaction between prosody and information structure: experimental evidence from Hindi and Bangla ...
Choudhury, Arunima. - : University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL), 2015
Abstract: The dissertation investigates the interaction between information structure, prosody and word order. The languages studied for the purpose of this dissertation are Hindi and Bangla. Both Hindi and Bangla are free word order languages with Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) as the canonical word order. However, other word orders like O-S-V, S-V-O, O-V-S, V-S-O, and V-O-S are also available. The different word orders in Hindi and Bangla are manifestations of different information-structural properties, and can also differ in their prosodic properties. Therefore, the studies presented in this dissertation aim to experimentally explore the different prosodic encoding of focus with respect to different word orders (SOV and OSV) in Hindi and Bangla. Further, the dissertation also looks deeper into different focus types (new information focus, corrective focus and selective focus) to study the differences in prosodic encoding of focus types and their interaction with word order and structural position of the focused ...
Keyword: Bangla; focus; focus types; FOS Languages and literature; fundamental frequency; Hindi; information structure; intensity; interactive study; linguistics; Linguistics; perception study; production study; prosody; psycholinguistics
URL: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF16AXBT6
https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c40-171162
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Argument ellipsis and the licensing of covert nominals in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam
In: Lingua <Amsterdam>. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier 134 (2013), 103-128
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Prosodic focus in Bangla: A psycholinguistic investigation of production and perception
In: LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts; Vol 3: LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012; 25:1-5 ; 2377-3367 (2012)
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