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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory : Studies in Meaning and Structure / ed. by Britta Stolterfoht, Sam Featherston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 111Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614510895
  • 9781614510888
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401
LOC classification:
  • P126 .E47 20012
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1: Methods and analysis -- Incremental truth value judgments -- Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora -- How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese -- The annotation of preposition senses in German -- Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory -- Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory -- Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition -- Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production -- McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context -- Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states -- Focus projection between theory and evidence -- Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study -- Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language -- Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension -- Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL) -- Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1: Methods and analysis -- Incremental truth value judgments -- Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora -- How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese -- The annotation of preposition senses in German -- Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory -- Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory -- Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition -- Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production -- McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context -- Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states -- Focus projection between theory and evidence -- Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study -- Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language -- Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension -- Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL) -- Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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