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Pip 'N Pinch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Pip 'N Pinch

Pip and Pinch are two ants that live with a colony beneath the ground. When a storm causes part of their home to cave in, Pip loses Pinch. He wanders throughout the ant home, going room-to-room looking for Pinch. Explore the underground world of the ants with Pip!

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 705

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax

This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century. Syntactic theory is both a domain of study in its own right, and one component of an integrated theory of the cognitive neuroscience of language. It provides a theory of the mediation between sound and meaning, a theory of the representations constructed during sentence processing, and a theory of the end-state for language acquisition. Given the highly interactive nature of the theory of syntax, this volume defines "experimental syntax" in the broadest possible terms, exploring both formal experimental methods that have been part of the domain of syntax since its ince...

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Prosody in Syntactic Encoding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Prosody in Syntactic Encoding

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension

Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including: •The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production •Sentence modality prosody characterization •The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems •Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages •The encoding of intonational contrasts in both intonational and tonal languages Featuring new data and ground-breaking results, the papers draw on empirical approaches that analyze production, perception and comprehension experiments such as the prepared speech paradigm and semantic scaling tasks. These are discussed in a variety of languages, some underrepresented in the literature (such as French and Estonian) while others, such as Shekgalagari, are examined in this way for the first time. This collection of cutting-edge material will be of interest to a broad range of language researchers.

Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, default stress is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets must be low in sonority. In this book, Jennifer Smith shows that phonological processes specific to strong positions are distinct from those involved in classic positional neutralization effects because they always serve to augment the strong position with a perceptually salient characteristic. Formally, positional augmentation effects are modeled by means of markedness constraints relativized to strong positions. Because positional augmentation constraints are subject to certain substantive restrictions, as seen in their connection to perceptual salience, this study has implications for the relationship between functional grounding and phonological theory.

Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory

Susan Kemper A debate about the role of working memory in language processing has become center-most in psycholinguistics (Caplan & Waters, in press; Just & Carpenter, 1992; Just, Carpenter, & Keller, 1996; Waters & Caplan, 1996). This debate concerns which aspects of language processing are vulnerable to working memory limitations, how working memory is best measured, and whether compensatory processes can offset working memory limitations. Age-comparative studies are particularly relevant to this debate for several reasons: difficulties with language and communication are frequently mentioned by older adults and signal the onset of Alzheimer's dementia and other pathologies associated with...

A Season on the Mat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

A Season on the Mat

Unbeaten through his years of high school wrestling in Waterloo, Iowa, and almost all the way through Iowa State University, Dan Gable went on to coach at the University of Iowa for twenty-one years, winning the Big 10 every year and the NCAA championship fifteen times.

Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on prosody (‘timing’) and intonation (‘melody’) used to constrain the parsing and interpretation of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody/intonation in silent reading, and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading? Prosody and intonation interact with phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language processes.

Compensatory Lengthening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Compensatory Lengthening

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series, and focuses on phonetics, phonology and diachrony of compensatory lengthening. The term compensatory lengthening (CL) refers to a set of phonological phenomena wherein the disappearance of one element of a representation is accompanied by a corresponding lengthening of another element. This study focuses on descriptive and formal similarities and divergences between CL of vowels triggered by consonant and by vowel loss.