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UNINA9910163141703321 |
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Autore |
Gotzner Nicole |
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Titolo |
Alternative Sets in Language Processing : How Focus Alternatives are Represented in the Mind / / by Nicole Gotzner |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv,162 pages) : 15 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Linguistics |
Psycholinguistics |
Cognitive grammar |
Semantics |
Pragmatics |
Phonology |
Theoretical Linguistics |
Cognitive Linguistics |
Phonology and Phonetics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of alternatives. In a series of language comprehension experiments, the author shows that |
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