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Dependency Grammars

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In dependency grammars, there are no phrasal levels, nor branch nodes. In dependency grammars, all nodes are terminal. While dependency grammars will yield trees with less nodes than those created under PSGs, it is important to note that Dependency grammars do not reject the idea of constituency. In our dependency example above, boat still dominates the determiner ‘the’, to form the constituent … [Read more...]

Syntactic Constituency

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Although language seems to be spoken linearly, since the only way we can do language is by having one word follow another, sentences and phrases are actually formed by attaching constituents to each other in a hierarchical construct. Consider the following sentence. (1) Harriet mistakenly went home with her cousin’s jacket. We know intuitively who did what. Furthermore, we know that … [Read more...]

Scholarly Articles: Prosody

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Below is a list of our current scholarly articles pertaining to various aspects of prosody.  Although these articles are not the most current, they are some of the best-known scholarly works in this area. Prosody in the comprehension of Spoken Language. Cutler, Oahan , and van Donselaar (1997) The Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation. Price et al. (1991) Intonational Phrasing … [Read more...]

Minimal Distinctions

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Phonemes can be thought of as a bundle of features.   Any sound you know, can be described by a list of distinctive features they bear such that if one feature is altered, the sound is altered.  For instance, /s/ is a voiceless, alveolar fricative.  By changing the voicing feature to ‘voiced’ we change the sound to /z/. Distinctive features enable us to: -classify phonemes into … [Read more...]

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