Experiments in Focus: Information structure and semantic processing

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...

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Other Authors: Featherston, Sam 1953- (Editor), Hörnig, Robin (Editor), Wietersheim, Sophie von (Editor), Winkler, Susanne 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2019]
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten Band 571
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623093
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (VI, 331 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9783110623093
DOI:10.1515/9783110623093