Experiments at the Interfaces (SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS, 37) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780523742 ISBN 13: 9781780523743

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

Synopsis

While experimental data collection has been common in psycholinguistics for some time, only relatively recently have experimental methods been employed to collect data for research in formal linguistics. Experimental methods can be particularly useful for investigating phenomena at the interfaces of the components of grammar, where the sources of multiple types of information need to be carefully controlled. Experiments at the Interfaces, edited by Jeffrey T. Runner from the University of Rochester, brings together recent experimental research examining a variety of issues within syntax and semantics, and their interfaces with each other and with other domains of language. The volume showcases a wide range of experimental methods and illustrates how they can be applied to critical questions relevant to formal linguistics.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Runner - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Review:

Linguists from Europe and the US report recent experimental research into issues regarding syntax and semantics and their interfaces with each other and with other domains of language. They cover interface effects in Serbian clitics, testing conditions on meaning transfer, tracking the preference for bound-variable dependencies in ambiguous ellipses and only-structures, most meanings are superlative, grammatical illusions and selective fallibility in real-time language of comprehension, seeing what you mean mostly, and the representational nature of representational noun phrases. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1780523742
• ISBN 13: 9781780523743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Runner Jeffrey