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Author : Katy Carlson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136722813
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lyn Frazier,Edward Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319129617
Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on prosody (‘timing’) and intonation (‘melody’) used to constrain the parsing and interpretation of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody/intonation in silent reading, and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading? Prosody and intonation interact with phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language processes.
Author : Roger P. G. van Gompel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135047276
What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just some of the many questions that sentence processing researchers have tried to answer by conducting ever more sophisticated experiments, making this one of the most productive and exciting areas in experimental language research in recent years. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this important field. It contains 10 chapters written by world-leading experts, which discuss influential theories of sentence processing and important experimental evidence, with a focus on recent developments in the area. The chapters also analyse research that has investigated how people process the structure and meaning of sentences, and how sentences are understood within their context. This comprehensive and authoritative work will appeal to students and researchers in the field of sentence processing, as well anyone with an interest in psychology and linguistics.
Author : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,Tanja Temmerman
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198712398
This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still understood. It explores fundamental questions about the workings of grammar and provides detailed case studies of inter- and intralinguistic variation.
Author : Andreas Konietzko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266569
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripping located at the syntax-information structure interface and argues for a licensing mechanism which is strongly tied to the focus properties of the construction. Under this view, types of bare argument ellipsis such as stripping and pseudostripping, which have received different treatments in the literature, are shown to be subject to the same licensing mechanism. This analysis is also extended to instances of bare argument ellipsis in embedded contexts, which have received little attention in the literature so far. Integrating theoretical and experimental reasoning, this study presents a series of experiments investigating the extraction, prosody and context properties of stripping and thus arrives at a comprehensive and unified account.
Author : Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589863
Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.
Author : Gerrit Kentner,Joost Kremers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110651416
What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure? A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form. The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept “intonational morpheme” (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.
Author : Katy Carlson,Charles Clifton, Jr.,Janet Dean Fodor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030015633
This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some were presented at the Lynschrift on May 19-20, 2018; others were written especially for this volume. The papers report original research on, or research-based theoretical analyses of, several of the domains that Professor Frazier contributed to during her career. The volume begins with a brief overview of Professor Frazier’s research contributions and an appreciation of the contributions she has made to the field of psycholinguistics and to her students and colleagues. The next several chapters discuss the roles that prosody plays in language processing, and the volume continues with chapters on the topic that established Professor Frazier as a major psycholinguistic theorist, syntactic processing. The volume then explores the roles semantics and pragmatics play in language comprehension, and concludes with reports of applications and extensions of research on language processing. All chapters were contributed by current and former students and colleagues of Professor Frazier in gratitude for the impact she has had on their lives and careers.
Author : Alexandru Nicolae,Adina Dragomirescu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258427
This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and even in creoles with a Romance lexifier (Makista and Kristang) either benefit from in-depth analyses confined to one single variety, or are subjected to comparative analysis (dialect vs standard language, dialect vs different major language(s), cross-dialectal comparison, cross-Romance comparison, and even comparison of language families). Theoretical and experimental approaches complement one another, as do diachrony and synchrony. Individually and as a whole, these contributions show how the Romance languages contribute to a better understanding of issues which are relevant in the current linguistic landscape: acquisition, n-words, ellipsis phenomena, focus and polarity, ditransitive constructions, grammaticalization theory, differential object marking, language ecology, event structure, cyclicity, passives and many more.
Author : Susanne Winkler,Sam Featherston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110216158
The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics. The contributions present some of the insights that linguists can gain by applying the new methods: progress within language study is accelerated by the new evidence since language systems are more precisely captured. Readers will enjoy the fresh perspective on linguistic questions made possible by the evidence-based approach.
Author : Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110213478
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author : Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000987843
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors not only enquire into effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Shravan Vasishth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317621195
The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth develops a new sentence processing model that builds on existing theories and overcomes their empirical problems. Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.
Author : Jon Sprouse,Norbert Hornstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107008700
Leading linguists and psycholinguists use cutting-edge experimental techniques to investigate one of the central phenomena of linguistics, 'island effects'.
Author : Sam Featherston,Robin Hörnig,Sophie von Wietersheim,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110623093
This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics interact and how they influence semantic processing and interpretation. The analysis of core information structural concepts that contribute to processing such as focus and contrast, the specific discourse status of referents that add to the common ground, context dependency and markedness as well as prosodic prominence and givenness marking has added new and convincing evidence to the research of information structure and semantic processing.