intrasentence

intrasentence punctuation

These means and confidence intervals were found for terminal marks and for intrasentence marks as well as all marks. It was found that all punctuation occurred at the rate of 199 marks per kiloword ± 1.9%, that there were 24 words per sentence ± 4.1%, and that intrasentence punctuation occurred at the rate of 156 marks per kiloword ± 2.3%.

1977, Andrew Malcolm, “Punctuation Frequency in Selected American Daily Newspapers. Thesis”, in Thesis archive, Rochester Institute of Technology

This study examined the effect of intrasentence pause on the temporal organization of the utterances both preceding and following the pause.

1998, Kuniko Kakita, “The effect of intrasentence pause on the articulation rate of prepausal and postpausal utterances. Meeting abstract”, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 104, →DOI, page 1818

The architecture of the text sets up an impossible frontier between Chile and the non-Chilean, by using intrasentence punctuation such as commas and parentheses but by being incapable of using the intersentence punctum, the period, as if doing so would echo the earlier image of the estate workers taking over the house itself.

2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 138