ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

International Grouping, Boundaries, and Syntactic Structure in French

Piet Mertens

K.U. Leuven, Department of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium

This paper describes the units and rules involved in (1) the lexicon-prosody interface, (2) the intonation grammar, (3) prosodic grouping, and (4) the syntax-prosody interface. All units are depicted in a multi-layered representation of prosodic structure.

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Bibliographic reference.  Mertens, Piet (1993): "International grouping, boundaries, and syntactic structure in French", In Prosody-1993, 156-159.