Published 2018
“…The findings show a high percentage of occurrence of the intonational nucleus in the complement of the postposition ago, which seems to support the researcher’s view that phrases containing ago, if nuclear, will by default bear the intonational nucleus on the complement of the postposition rather than on the postposition itself –unless stronger
psycholinguistic principles such as rhythmic alternation and rhythmic optimisation come into play, which may cause ago to become prominent. …”
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