Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words: Another look at the suffixing preference

Language

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 927-960

  Himmelmann, Nikolaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affixes; Clitics; Explanation in typology; Grammaticization; Language processing; Tagalog; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916912419     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2014.0105     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Anderson, Stephen R. 1992. A-morphous morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Anderson, Stephen R. 2005. Aspects of the theory of clitics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Auer, Peter. 1996. On the prosody and syntax of turntaking. Prosody in conversation: Interactional studies, ed. by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margret Selting, 57-100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Beattie, Geoffrey W., and B. L. Butterworth. 1979. Contextual probability and word frequency as determinants of pauses and speech errors in spontaneous speech. Language and Speech 22. 201-11.
5. Bybee, Joan L.; William Pagliuca; and Revere D. Perkins. 1990. On the asymmetries in the affixation of grammatical material. Studies in typology and diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, ed. by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer, and Keith Denning, 1-42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
6. Chafe, Wallace L. (ed.) 1980. The pear stories: Cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
7. Clark, Herbert H. 1996. Using language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Clark, Herbert H., and Jean E. Fox Tree. 2002. Using uh and uhm in spontaneous speaking. Cognition 84. 73-111.
9. Clark, Herbert H., and Barbara C. Malt. 1984. Psychological constraints on language: A commentary on Bresnan and Kaplan and on Givon. Method and tactics in cognitive science, ed. byWalter Kintsch, James R. Miller, and Peter G. Polso, 191-214. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
10. Clark, Herbert H., and Thomas Wasow. 1998. Repeating words in spontaneous speech. Cognitive Psychology 37. 201-42.
11. Croft, William. 1995. Intonation units and grammatical structure. Linguistics 33. 839-82.
12. Cutler, Ann; John Hawkins; and Gary Gilligan. 1985. The suffixing preference: A processing explanation. Linguistics 23. 723-58.
13. Cysouw, Michael. 2005. Morphology in the wrong place: A survey of preposed enclitics. Morphology and its demarcations, ed. by Wolfgang U. Dressler, 17-37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
14. Cysouw, Michael. 2009. The asymmetry of affixation. Snippets (Special issue in honor of Manfred Krifka, ed. by Sigrid Beck and Hans-Martin Gartner) 20. 10-14. Online: http://www. ledonline. it/snippets/.
15. Diez, Friedrich. 1838. Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen, zweiter Theil. Bonn: Weber.
16. Dryer, Matthew S. 2011a. Prefixing vs. suffixing in inflectional morphology. In Dryer & Haspelmath, Ch. 26. Online: http://wals. info/chapter/26.
17. Dryer, Matthew S. 2011b. Coding of nominal plurality. In Dryer & Haspelmath, Ch. 33. Online: http://wals. info/chapter/33.
18. Dryer, Matthew S. 2011c. Position of case affixes. In Dryer & Haspelmath, Ch. 51. Online: http://wals. info/chapter/51.
19. Dryer, Matthew S. 2011d. Position of pronominal possessive affixes. In Dryer & Haspelmath, Ch. 57. Online: http://wals. info/chapter/57.
20. Dryer, Matthew S. 2011e. Position of tense-aspect affixes. In Dryer & Haspelmath, Ch. 69. Online: http://wals. info/chapter/69.
21. Dryer, Matthew S., and Martin Haspelmath (eds.) 2011. The world atlas of language structures online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library.
22. Du Bois, John W.; Wallace L. Chafe; Charles Meyer; and Sandra A. Thompson. 2000. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, part 1. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
23. Du Bois, JohnW.; Wallace L. Chafe; Charles Meyer; Sandra A. Thompson; and Nii Martey. 2003. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, part 2. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
24. Du Bois, John W., and Robert Englebretson. 2004. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, part 3. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
25. Du Bois, John W., and Robert Englebretson. 2005. Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, part 4. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
26. Du Bois, John W.; Stephan Schuetze-Coburn; Susanna Cumming; and Danae Paolino. 1993. Outline of discourse transcription. Talking data: Transcription and coding in discourse research, ed. by Jane Edwards andMartinD. Lampert, 45-89. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
27. Fortescue, Michael. 2006. Drift and the grammaticalization divide between Northern and SouthernWakashan. International Journal of American Linguistics 72. 295-324.
28. Fox, Barbara A.; Makoto Hayashi; and Robert Jasperson. 1996. Resources and repair: A cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair. Interaction and grammar, ed. by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, 185-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Goffman, Erving. 1981. Radio talk. Forms of talk, 197-327. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
30. Goldman Eisler, Frieda. 1968. Psycholinguistics: Experiments in spontaneous speech. New York: Academic Press.
31. Greenberg, Joseph H. 1957. Order of affixing: Astudy in general linguistics. Essays in linguistics, 86-97. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
32. Gussenhoven, Carlos, and Haike Jacobs. 1998. Understanding phonology. London: Arnold.
33. Hall, Christopher J. 1988. Integrating diachronic and processing principles in explaining the suffixing preference. Explaining language universals, ed. by JohnA. Hawkins, 321-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Hall, Christopher J. 1992. Morphology and mind: A unified approach to explanation in linguistics. London: Routledge.
35. Hawkins, John A., and Anne Cutler. 1988. Psycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry. Explaining language universals, ed. by John A. Hawkins, 280-317. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
36. Hawkins, John A., and Gary Gilligan. 1988. Prefixing and suffixing universals in relation to basic word order. Lingua 74. 219-59.
37. Hayashi, Makoto. 2001. Postposition-initiated utterances in Japanese conversation: An interactional account of a grammatical practice. Studies in interactional linguistics, ed. by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, 317-43. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
38. Hayashi, Makoto. 2003a. Language and the body as resources for collaborative action: A study of word searches in Japanese conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36. 109-41.
39. Hayashi, Makoto. 2003b. Practices in joint utterance construction in Japanese conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
40. Hopper, Paul J., and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
41. Howell, Peter, and Stevie Sackin. 2001. Function word repetitions emerge when speakers are operantly conditioned to reduce frequency of silent pauses. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 30. 457-74.
42. Iwasaki, Shoichi. 1993. Subjectivity in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
43. Klavans, Judith. 1985. The independence of syntax and phonology in cliticization. Language 61. 95-120.
44. Lehmann, Christian. 1995. Thoughts on grammaticalization. Munich: LINCOM Europa.
45. Levelt, Willem J. M. 1983. Monitoring and self-repair in speech. Cognition 14. 41-104.
46. Levelt, Willem J. M. 1989. Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
47. Levelt, Willem J. M. 1992. Accessing words in speech production: Stages, processes and representations. Cognition 42. 1-22.
48. Levelt, Willem J. M.; Ardi Roelofs; and Antje S. Meyer. 1999. A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22. 1-38.
49. Local, John, and John Kelly. 1986. Projection and 'silences': Notes on phonetic and conversational structure. Human Studies 9. 185-204.
50. Marslen-Wilson, W. D. 1987. Functional parallelism in spoken word recognition. Cognition 25. 71-102.
51. Matsumoto, Kazuko. 2000. Japanese intonation units and syntactic structure. Studies in Language 24. 515-64.
52. Mithun, Marianne. 2003. Why prefixes? Acta Linguistica Hungarica 50. 155-85.
53. Morita, Emi. 2005. Negotiation of contingent talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
54. Nespor, Marina, and Irene Vogel. 1986. Prosodic phonology. Dordrecht: Foris.
55. Reid, Lawrence A. 1970. Central Bontoc: Sentence, paragraph and discourse. Norman: University of Oklahoma and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
56. Sacks, Harvey; Emanuel Schegloff; and Gail Jefferson. 1974. Asimplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language 50. 696-735.
57. Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language: An introduction to the study of speech. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
58. Selkirk, Elisabeth. 1995. The prosodic structure of function words. Papers in optimality theory (University of Massachusetts occasional papers in linguistics 18), ed. by Jill Beckman, Laura Walsh Dickey, and Suzanne Urbanczyk, 439-70. Amherst: GLSA Publications.
59. Simpson, Adrian P. 2006. Hesitation phenomena and pauses. Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edn., ed. by Keith Brown, vol. 5, 284-88. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
60. Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
61. Spencer, Andrew, and Ana R. Luís. 2012. Clitics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
62. Stivers, Tanja; N. J. Enfield; Penelope Brown; Christina Engler; Makoto Hayashi; Trine Heinemann; Gertie Hoymann; Federico Rossano; Jan Peter de Ruiter; Kyung-Eun Yoonf; and Stephen C. Levinson. 2009. Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106. 10587-92. Online: http://www. pnas. org/content/106/26/10587. full.
63. Streeck, Jürgen. 1996. A little Ilokano grammar as it appears in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 26. 189-213.
64. Tanaka, Hiroko. 1999. Turn-taking in Japanese conversation: A study in grammar and interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
65. Zwicky, Arnold M., and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. inflection: English n't. Language 59. 502-13.