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Peer reviewedBeckman, Mary E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Considers the fact that prosody is a grammatical (phonological) structure that must be parsed. The article describes prosodic categories marked by intonational pattern for English and Japanese, concentrates on "pitch accent" and tonally marked "phrases," and discusses potential ambiguities in parsing these categories. (60…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English, Grammar, Intonation
