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Carol Genetti
Professor of Linguistics


Arts and Humanities

NYU Abu Dhabi

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Saadiyat Island
Abu Dhabi
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Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from Prosodic Embedding in Dolakha Newar


Conference paper


Carol Genetti
In Amina Mettouchi, Gaëlle Ferré (eds), Actes, Proceedings, Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation, 2003, pp. 111-116

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Genetti, C. (2003). Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from Prosodic Embedding in Dolakha Newar. In I. A. Mettouchi & G. F. (eds) (Eds.), Actes, Proceedings, Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation (pp. 111–116).


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Genetti, Carol. “Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from Prosodic Embedding in Dolakha Newar.” In Actes, Proceedings, Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation, edited by In Amina Mettouchi and Gaëlle Ferré (eds), 111–116, 2003.


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Genetti, Carol. “Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from Prosodic Embedding in Dolakha Newar.” Actes, Proceedings, Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation, edited by In Amina Mettouchi and Gaëlle Ferré (eds), 2003, pp. 111–16.


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@inproceedings{carol2003a,
  title = {Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from Prosodic Embedding in Dolakha Newar},
  year = {2003},
  pages = {111-116},
  author = {Genetti, Carol},
  editor = {Mettouchi, In Amina and (eds), Gaëlle Ferré},
  booktitle = {Actes, Proceedings, Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation}
}

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the interrelationship of syntax and prosody in a verb-final language. The analysis distinguishes prosodic units with continuing intonation terminal contours from those with final terminal contours. Several types of continuing and final terminal contours are illustrated. The prosodic sentence is defined as zero or more prosodic units with continuing intonation contours followed by a prosodic unit with a final intonation contour. Clear cases of prosodic embedding, used by narrators to indicate direct quotes, are analyzed. Three striking parallels between the prosodic  and syntactic structures are discussed; these parallels are due to the verb-final typology of the language.


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