caa a22 4500 378937561 CHVBK 20180305123644.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040623xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ANGL.2003.581 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ANGL.2003.581 Syntax and Semantics at Tone Unit Boundaries [Elektronische Daten] [Jacqueline Monschau, Rolf Kreyer, Joybrato Mukherjee] The relationship between syntax and prosody has spawned a vast literature over the last years. In the present paper, we particularly capitalise on the corpus-linguistic model of talk units as suggested by Halford (1996) and elaborated further by Esser (1998) and Mukherjee (2001). A major tenet of this model is the assumption that the boundaries of contour-defined tone units are usually syntactically motivated and that prosody and syntax can thus be shown to interact at these boundaries: it is here that the speaker signals various degrees of completeness or incompleteness of the utterance ‘so far' to the hearer. This results in different degrees of expectancies on the part of the hearer. In the present paper, the relevance of the tone unit boundary as an ‘expectancy-relevance place' is discussed in a wider setting. In particular, we provide data from a corpus-based experiment and an in-depth functional analysis which reveal that a variety of syntactic and semantic factors come into play at tone unit boundaries. © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Monschau Jacqueline Bonn aut Kreyer Rolf Bonn aut Mukherjee Joybrato Bonn aut Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/4(2004-06-23), 581-609 0340-5222 121:4<581 2004 121 ANGL https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Monschau Jacqueline Bonn aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kreyer Rolf Bonn aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mukherjee Joybrato Bonn aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/4(2004-06-23), 581-609 0340-5222 121:4<581 2004 121 ANGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter