Stolterfoht / Featherston Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

Studies in Meaning and Structure
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-088-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stolterfoht, Britta

Featherston, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;7
2;Part 1: Methods and analysis;15
2.1;Incremental truth value judgments;17
2.2;Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora;43
2.3;How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese;57
2.4;The annotation of preposition senses in German;77
3;Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory;97
3.1;Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory;99
3.2;Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition;129
3.3;Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production;161
3.4;McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context;183
3.5;Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states;201
3.6;Focus projection between theory and evidence;221
3.7;Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study;255
4;Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language;279
4.1;Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension;281
4.2;Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL);305
4.3;Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically;331
5;Index;355

Über Autor(innen)

Featherston, Sam
Sam Featherston, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Stolterfoht, Britta
Britta Stolterfoht, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Britta Stolterfoht, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Sam Featherston, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.