Intrasentential prosody: Conjunction, speech rate and sentence length. Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française 28

In this paper, I will discuss prosody between two adjacent sentences in a discourse, especially intrasentential phonological changes such as Flapping, the Linking-r and the Intrusive-r (cf. Nespor and Vogel 1986). I will propose an analysis that consists of the mapping of constituent structure onto phonological boundaries and the boundary deletion rule. I will argue that this model naturally explains the various factors affecting intrasentential prosody, including conjunction types, speech rate and sentence length. 1