The Fruits Of Empirical Linguistics Product

Author : Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110213478

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The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Product by Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler Pdf

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 : Anonim
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Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638346371

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The fruits of empirical linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sam Featherston
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Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 2, Product (Studies in Generative Grammar ; 101) by Sam Featherston Pdf

Author : Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 281 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110213386

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The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Process by Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler Pdf

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 : Carson T. Schütze
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234029

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The empirical base of linguistics by Carson T. Schütze Pdf

Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a source of data. Carson T. Schütze presents here a detailed critical overview of the vast literature on the nature and utility of grammaticality judgments and other linguistic intuitions, and the ways they have been used in linguistic research. He shows how variation in the judgment process can arise from factors such as biological, cognitive, and social differences among subjects, the particular elicitation method used, and extraneous features of the materials being judged. He then assesses the status of judgments as reliable indicators of a speaker's grammar. Integrating substantive and methodological findings, Schütze proposes a model in which grammaticality judgments result from interaction of linguistic competence with general cognitive processes. He argues that this model provides the underpinning for empirical arguments to show that once extragrammatical variance is factored out, universal grammar succumbs to a simpler, more elegant analysis than judgment data initially lead us to expect. Finally, Schütze offers numerous practical suggestions on how to collect better and more useful data. The result is a work of vital importance that will be required reading for linguists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers of language alike.

Author : Britta Stolterfoht,Sam Featherston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614510888

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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory by Britta Stolterfoht,Sam Featherston Pdf

The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work. More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist. This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.

Author : Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher ,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 484 pages
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Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103362

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Clitics in the wild by Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher ,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz Pdf

This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.

Author : Susanne Winkler,Sam Featherston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110216158

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Product by Susanne Winkler,Sam Featherston Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : LCCN:2009016914

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The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Process by Sam Featherston,Susanne Winkler Pdf

Author : András Kertész,Csilla Rákosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107009240

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Data and Evidence in Linguistics by András Kertész,Csilla Rákosi Pdf

The question of what types of data and evidence can be used is one of the most important topics in linguistics. This book is the first to comprehensively present the methodological problems associated with linguistic data and evidence. Its originality is twofold. First, the authors' approach accounts for a series of unexplained characteristics of linguistic theorising: the uncertainty and diversity of data, the role of evidence in the evaluation of hypotheses, the problem solving strategies as well as the emergence and resolution of inconsistencies. Second, the findings are obtained by the application of a new model of plausible argumentation which is also of relevance from a general argumentation theoretical point of view. All concepts and theses are systematically introduced and illustrated by a number of examples from different linguistic theories, and a detailed case-study section shows how the proposed model can be applied to specific linguistic problems.

Author : Sam Featherston,Yannick Versley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110401929

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Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change by Sam Featherston,Yannick Versley Pdf

The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this need. While there has previously been something of a gulf between theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those linguists who work with quantitative data types, this gap is narrowing. In the light of the empirical revolution in the study of syntax, even people whose primary concern is grammatical theory take note of processing effects and attribute certain effects to them. Correspondingly, workers focusing on the surface evidence can relate more to the concepts of the theoreticians, because the two layers of explanation have been brought into contact. And these workers too must account for the data gathered by the theoreticians. An additional innovation is the generative analysis of historical data – this is now seen as psycholinguistic theory-relevant data like any other. These papers are thus a snapshot of some of the work currently being done in evidence-based grammar, using both experimental and historical data.

Author : Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng,Norbert Corver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602490

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Diagnosing Syntax by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng,Norbert Corver Pdf

Drawing on the expertise of over 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, this book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax?

Author : Jasmina Milićević
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254641

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Serbian Clitics by Jasmina Milićević Pdf

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that characterizes “well-behaved” words, clitics prosodically depend on a stressed sentence element, called their host, which makes them look and, in some contexts, behave like affixes (parts of words). Some clitics, Serbian second-position clitics being the case in point, also obey stringent linear ordering rules, different from those holding for fully-fledged sentence elements. This monograph offers a comprehensive formalized description of second-position clitics in standard Serbian from the viewpoint of the Meaning-Text theory, an approach relying on syntactic dependencies and oriented towards speech production, which sets it apart from most contemporary frameworks. It will be of interest for general linguists, Slavists, and advanced learners of Serbian.

Author : Monika Fludernik,Daniel Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110347500

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Linguistics and Literary Studies / Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft by Monika Fludernik,Daniel Jacob Pdf

This volume explores the interface between linguistics and literary studies. Theoretical and textual analyses help illustrate the common features between everyday discourse and literature, and show the potentials for a collaborative approach between literary scholars and linguists in understanding speech acts and reference; inference, cognitive and cultural background; rhetoric, styles of speaking and writing; as well as perspectives and genres.

Author : Laurence Goldstein
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191642852

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Brevity by Laurence Goldstein Pdf

Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. This book brings it into prominence as both a multifaceted topic of deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a testing ground for theories in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer modeling. Brevity is achieved in a variety of ways. Speakers use elliptical constructions and exploit salient features of the conversational environment in a process of pragmatic enrichment so as to pack as much as possible into a few words. They take account of what has already been said in the current and previous conversations, and tailor their words to what they know about the beliefs and personalities of the people they're talking to. Most of the time they do all this with no obvious mental effort. The book, which brings together distinguished linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists, is the product of an interactive multidisciplinary research project that extended over four years. The questions dealt with concern how speakers secure understanding of what they mean when what they mean far outstrips the literal or compositional meanings of the sentences or sentence fragments that they use. Brevity sheds new light on economy in discourse. It will appeal to linguists, philosophers, and psychologists at advanced undergraduate level and above.