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Prosodic differences among function words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2005

Draga Zec
Draga Zec
Affiliation:
Cornell University
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Abstract

Function words in standard Serbian fall into two classes: prosodically free functional elements on the one hand, and prosodically bound functional elements, or clitics, on the other. The two classes have overlapping syntactic distributions, yet exhibit clear prosodic differences. Free functional elements may become prosodic words if they are minimally disyllabic, or if focused, and in this they crucially differ from clitics, whose only prosodic option is to be included into the host prosodic word. It is argued that the prosodic properties of the two classes of function words cannot be captured by a single set of ranked constraints, and that one of the classes, the class of clitics, needs to be encoded lexically, by virtue of prosodic prespecification.

Type
Research Article
Information
Phonology , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 77 - 112
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Johanna Brugman, Abby Cohn, Molly Diesing and Mats Rooth for valuable comments on various issues addressed in this paper. I am also grateful to three anonymous referees, an associate editor and the editors for their most helpful suggestions, which led to significant improvements of the manuscript. This paper was presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics in June 2004.