Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages - new book

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3-319-05675-1, 978-3-319-05675-3
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Book author: fabricius, mertins, fabri, mertin, hans hansen, hans hem
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Author: Barbara Hemforth; Barbara Mertins; Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics; Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages
Publisher: Springer; Springer International Publishing
251 Pages
Publishing year: 2014-07-01
Cham; CH
Language: English
96,29 € (DE)
99,00 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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XII, 251 p. 42 illus.

EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik; Verstehen; Anaphoric contexts in Brazilian Portugese; Bare nouns; Conversational implicatures in anaphora resolution; Cross-linguistic studies; Experimental linguistics; From verbs to discourse; Pairing form and meaning in English and Norwegian; Understanding coordinate clauses in Czech and English; understanding coordinate clauses in German and Norwegian; B; Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics; Semiotics; Comparative Linguistics; Syntax; Social Sciences; Semiotik und Semiologie; Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie; BB

Foreword.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Meaning across Languages.- Chapter 2: Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Approach.- Chapter 3: Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses?.- Chapter 4: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect.- Chapter 5: Referring Expressions in Speech Reports.- Chapter 6: The Role of Grammaticality Judgments Within an Integral Approach to Brazilian Portuguese Bare Nominals.- Chapter 7: Information Structure and Pronoun Resolution in German and French: Evidence from the Visual-world Paradigm.- Chapter 8: Conversational Implicatures in Anaphora Resolution: Alternative Constructions and Referring Expressions.- Chapter 9: From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality.

Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating theoretically well-founded contrastive descriptions with thorough empirical investigations. Authors answer questions on the topic of how we ‘encode’ complex thoughts into linguistic signals and how we interpret such signals in appropriate ways.

Chapters combine on- and off-line empirical methods varying from large-scale corpus analyses over acceptability judgements, sentence completion studies, and reading time experiments. The authors shed new light on the central questions related to our everyday use of language, especially the problem of how we construe meaning in and through language in general as well as through the means provided by particular languages.

, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin & Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS),Berlin