Syntax and Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syntax and Semantics write by Dieter Hillert. This book was released on 1972. Syntax and Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective write by Dieter Hillert. This book was released on 1998-07-13. Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The innovative element of this volume is its overview of the fundamental psycholinguistic topics involved in sentence processing. While most psycholinguistic studies focus on a single language and induce a general model of universal sentence processing, this volume proposes a cross-linguistic approach. It contains two distinct features first embraced in the 18th century by brothers Freiherr Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt. First, it offers a linguistic theory that characterizes universal cognitive features of the human language processor (or the mind and its biological source), independent of a single language structure. Second, it contains a language theory which considers the diversity of linguistic structures and provides a powerful theory of language processing. Contributors cover a wide range of topics, including word recognition, fixed expressions, grammatical constraints, empty categories, and parsing. Their research involves analyses of 12 languages. This book provides an overview of central psycholinguistic topics in sentence processing; and combines deductive and inductive methods in fashioning an innovative approach. The contributors address word recognition, fixed expressions, grammatical constraints, empty categories, and parsing. Its original papers form a coherent presentation.
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing write by M. de Vincenzi. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent studies in psycho linguistics have ranged through a variety of languages. In this trend, which has no precedent, studies in language processing have followed studies in language acquisition and theoretical linguistics in considering language universals in a broader scope than only in English. Since the beginning of the century, studies in language acquisition have produced a vast body of data from a number of Indoeuropean languages, and the emphasis on the universal has preceded the emphasis on the particular (see (Slobin 1985) for a review). Nowadays, the research in the field advances by means of a continuous linking between the cross-linguistic uniformities and the individual language influences on development. The level of language universals is continuously refined as the data from a number of languages contribute to the elaboration of a more distinctive picture of the language of children. The first cross-linguistic studies in theoretical linguistics appeared at the end of the seventies. Within the Chomskian paradigm, the reference to the Romance languages caused a shift from a rule-based toward a principle-based formalism (Chomsky 1981, 1995); within alternative theories, the reduced prominence of the pure phrase structure component in favor of the lexicon and/or the functional relations (see, e.g., Lexical Functional Grammar (Bresnan 1982), Relational Grammar (Perlmutter 1983)) sought empirical support in languages exhibiting deep structural differences with respect to English (e.g. Bantu, Malayalam, Romance and Slavic languages Warlpiri). The M. De Vincenzi and V. Lombardo (eds.), Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing, 1-19.
Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing
Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing write by Despoina Papadopoulou. This book was released on 2006-08-27. Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. It is maintained that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles.
Cognition and Sentence Production
Cognition and Sentence Production - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognition and Sentence Production write by S.N. Sridhar. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Cognition and Sentence Production available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The developments in linguistic theory over the last three decades have given us a better understanding of the formal properties of language. However, as the truism goes, language does not exist in a vacuum. It in teracts with a cognitive system that involves much more than language and functions as the primary instrument of human communication. A theory of language must, therefore, be based on an integration of its for mal properties with its cognitive and communicative dimensions. The present work is offered as the modest contribution to this research paradigm. This book is a revised and slightly enlarged version of my doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In writing the original version, I had the privilege of working with Professor Charles E. Osgood, who is widely recognized as the founder and one of the leading figures of modern psycholinguistics. I have benefited from ex tensive and stimulating discussions with him, not only on this topic but in the development of his theory of language performance in general (see his Lectures on Language Performance, 1980, in this series). However, the re sponsibility for the particular formulations of the theory, hypotheses, in terpretations, and conclusions found in this work-which have been in fluenced, no doubt, by my training as a linguist, rather than as a psychologist-are my own.
