Experiments in Focus : : Information Structure and Semantic Processing /

Experiments in Focus : : Information Structure and Semantic Processing / / ed. by Sam Featherston, Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim, Susanne Winkler.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bader, Markus,
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina,
Dröge, Alexander,
Döring, Sophia,
Featherston, Sam,
Fekete, István,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Féry, Caroline,
Gerbrich, Hannah,
Hartmann, Jutta M.,
Häussler, Jana,
Hörnig, Robin,
Konietzko, Andreas,
Kuthy, Kordula De,
Lidzba, Karen,
Radó, Janina,
Repp, Sophie,
Schreier, Vivian,
Stolterfoht, Britta,
Surányi, Balázs,
Webelhuth, Gert,
Weskott, Thomas,
Wietersheim, Sophie von,
Winkler, Susanne,
HerausgeberIn:
Featherston, Sam,
Hörnig, Robin,
Wietersheim, Sophie von,
Winkler, Susanne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 571
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Markedness in context: An approach to licensing
  • The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence
  • Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German
  • Focus and prosody in nominal copular clauses
  • Focus constraints on relative clause antecedents in sluicing
  • Markers of discourse status in descriptions of altered spatial layouts
  • On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization
  • How to get from graded intuitions to binary decisions
  • Scrambled Wackernagel! Neural responses to noncanonical pronoun serializations in German
  • Logical and pragmatic meaning in the interpretation of disjunction: Contextual relevance and scalar implicatures
  • The processing of argument structure: A comparison between patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and healthy controls
  • Standard items for English judgment studies: Syntax and semantics
  • Index

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