Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing

✍ Scribed by Sam Featherston (editor); Robin Hörnig (editor); Sophie von Wietersheim (editor); Susanne Winkler (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 338
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; 571
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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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