Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure
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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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure
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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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781614510895
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 09/14/2012
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , #111
Pages: 357
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.03(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword Britta Stolterfoht Sam Featherston vii

Part 1 Methods and analysis

Incremental truth value judgments Oliver Bott Fabian Schlotterbeck 3

Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora Christian Pietsch Armin Buch Stefan Kopp Jan de Ruiter 29

How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese Zhong Chen Lena Jäger Shravan Vasishth 43

The annotation of preposition senses in German Antje Müller Claudia Roch Tobias Stadtfeld Tibor Kiss 63

Part 2 Applications to linguistic theory

Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory Lisa Matthewson 85

Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition Sonja Tiemann Vera Hohans Sigrid Beck 115

Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production Petra Hendriks Ruth Koops van't Jagt John Hoeks 147

McGee's counterexample to Modus Ponens in context Janneke Huitink 169

Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states Berry Claus Olga Kriukova 187

Focus projection between theory and evidence Kordula De Kuthy Detmar Meurers 207

Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study Sara Holler Jutta M. Hartmann 241

Part 3 Cognitive and neurological basis of language

Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension Barbara Kaup Jana Lüdtke Ilona Steiner 267

Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL) Eleonore Schwilling Karen Lidzba Andreas Konietzko Susanne Winkler Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann 291

Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically Susanne Reiterer Nandini C. Singh Susanne Winkler 317

Index 341

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