Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Experiments in Focus

Information Structure and Semantic Processing

Edited by: Sam Featherston , Robin Hörnig , Sophie von Wietersheim and Susanne Winkler

Volume 571 in the series Linguistische Arbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093

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About this book

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.

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Sam Featherston, Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Markedness in context: An approach to licensing Robin Hörnig, Sam Featherston, Sophie von Wietersheim and Susanne Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence Sophia Döring and Sophie Repp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German Kordula De Kuthy and Britta Stolterfoht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Focus and prosody in nominal copular clauses Jutta M. Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Focus constraints on relative clause antecedents in sluicing Andreas Konietzko, Janina Radó and Susanne Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Markers of discourse status in descriptions of altered spatial layouts Robin Hörnig and Caroline Féry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization Thomas Weskott, Robin Hörnig and Gert Webelhuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
How to get from graded intuitions to binary decisions Markus Bader and Jana Häussler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Scrambled Wackernagel! Neural responses to noncanonical pronoun serializations in German Alexander Dröge, Jürg Fleischer and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Logical and pragmatic meaning in the interpretation of disjunction: Contextual relevance and scalar implicatures Balázs Surányi and István Fekete Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
The processing of argument structure: A comparison between patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and healthy controls Andreas Konietzko and Karen Lidzba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Standard items for English judgment studies: Syntax and semantics Hannah Gerbrich, Vivian Schreier and Sam Featherston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists (formal syntax, semantics, pragmatics); psycholinguists; experimental linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 331
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 47
- Tables: 23
Keywords: Information structure; pragmatics; semantics; language processing

eBook

Published: November 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110623093

Hardcover

Published: November 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110618402

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110765984