The proposal examined here is that speakers use uh and um to announce that they are
initiating what they expect to be a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. Speakers …

In this tutorial we present evidence that, because syntax does not fully predict the way that
spoken utterances are organized, prosody is a significant issue for studies of auditory …

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and
semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

In most languages we find'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on
their own. Instead they have to'lean on'a neighbouring word, like the'd,'ve and …

This article argues that the relation between syntactic XPs and phonological phrases is
subject to a constraint, WRAP-XP, that demands that each XP be contained in a …