Pauses,
Clauses, Sentences
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Frieda
Goldman-Eisler
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| Abstract |
| The tool of pause measurement was
applied to the question of the psychological reality of syntactic structures in
spontaneous speech. The material investigated covered a wide field of speech
productions, of different speakers and different speech tasks. Their analysis showed
that the hierarchy of syntactic structures is reflected differentially in the pause
structure of spontaneous speech. When readings of the spontaneous texts were
compared with the original spontaneous speech it emerged that the reading process modifies
the pausing for different syntactic structures differently. Sentences as distinct
from clauses are marked by their temporal cohesion in spontaneous speech as well as in
reading. This fact is discussed with reference to Wundt's analytical theory of
sentence-wholes. |
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| Goldman-Eisler,
F. 1972 Pauses, Clauses, Sentences. In Language and Speech 15/??: 103-13. |
