Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing (Linguistische Arbeiten, 571) - Hardcover

 
9783110618402: Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing (Linguistische Arbeiten, 571)

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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.

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Sam Featherston, Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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This volume presents 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, 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.

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ISBN 10:  3110765985 ISBN 13:  9783110765984
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2021
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