Prosody of Formulaic Sequences

Phoebe M. S. Lin is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

• List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction 2. Formulaic language: An overview 3. Can we identify formulaic language based on prosodic cues? 4. Study one: Do formulaic sequences align with intonation units? 5. Study two: A comprehensive profile of the intonation, stress and rhythm of formulaic language6. Study three: A multimodal approach to the identification of formulaic language by native speaker judgement 7. Conclusions: The prosody of formulaic language IndexBibliography

As one of the first studies to empirically test the hypothesis of distinct prosodic cues signalling formulaicity, Lin's exploration and careful description of various methods (e.g. automatic extraction, native speaker judgment) allow for an important evaluation of which methods are most appropriate and useful for identifying formulaic language ... Moreover, the level of detail with which Lin describes her method presents a useful research template that is easily transferable to other studies ... Provides a compelling contribution to the study of formulaicity and convincingly demonstrates the potential of prosodic cues for the identification of formulaic sequences.