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Linguistics Dept. UC Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077
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| LRC Seminar, Spring 2008 Home LRC Seminar, Spring 2008 The class looks at prosodic structure and its relation to syntax and semantics. Generalizations about this relation turn out to be recursive: the phonological structure of a sentence in natural language can be analyzed compositionally based on the phonological properties of its parts, just as the semantic meaning of an expression is compositionally derived from the meaning of its parts. This fits well with the recent conception of syntax as a compositional engine that combines smaller pieces into larger structures that get cyclically assigned a phonological and semantic interpretation. This class explores the nature of the interface, looks at how phonetic and phonological means serve to encode syntactic and semantic information, and discusses what can be learned about the interrelation of different grammatical components.
Guest Instructor:
Michael Wagner, Cornell University.
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