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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790809303321

Autore

Carlson Katy <1973->

Titolo

Parallelism and prosody in the processing of ellipsis sentences / / Katy Carlson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-72288-2

1-138-99475-8

1-315-02417-9

1-136-72281-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Ellipsis

Parallelism (Linguistics)

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2002 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Abstract; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Parallelism and the Parallelism Hypothesis; Sentence Processing; Ellipsis Sentences and Conjunction; Prosody and Prosodic Processing; Overview of Book; Chapter 2: The Processing of Ambiguous Written Gapping Sentences; Introduction to Gapping and its Structure; Processing Gapping Sentences; Experiment 1: Written Gapping Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Stimulus Pre-Testing; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion

Other Possible BiasesExperiment 2: Fill-in Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; Caminati Experiment: Gapping in Context; General Discussion; Conclusions; Chapter 3: The Auditory Processing of Ambiguous Gapping Sentences; Auditory Processing; Experiment 3 : Prosodic Parallelism Auditory Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results and Discussion; Experiment 4: Context-rating and Naturalness Study; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; On-line Auditory Processing



Experiment 5: Ellipsis Self-Paced Listening QuestionnaireMethod; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; Experiment 6: Gapping Self-Paced Listening Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion and Conclusions from Self-Paced Listening Experiments; General Conclusions; Chapter 4: Parallelism in Non-conjoined Ellipsis Sentences; Comparatives and Their Structure; Replacives and Stripping and Their Structures; Commonalities Between Comparatives, Replacives, and Stripping; Experiment 7: Replacives, Stripping Self-Paced Reading Questionnaire; Method

StimuliProcedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; Experiment 8: Written Comparatives, Replacives, Stripping Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; Experiment 9: Auditory Comparatives Questionnaire; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; Conclusions; Chapter 5: Prosodic Parallelism, Focus, and Pitch Range; The Grammar of Focus; Processing Issues; Experiment 10: Auditory, Gapping Questionnaire with Neutral Accent; Method; Stimuli; Procedure; Participants; Results and Discussion; Experiment 11: Production Study; Method; Stimuli

Procedure and ParticipantsResults; Discussion; Features of Prosodic Parallelism; Experiment 12: Pitch Range Auditory Questionnaire; Pitch Matching; Sentence Types and Prosodic Descriptions; Replacives; VP Ellipsis Sentences; Cantrall-Inspired Pronoun Sentences; Adverbial Sentences; Procedure; Participants; Results; Discussion; General Conclusions; Chapter 6: Conclusions about Parallelism and Ellipsis; Appendices; A. Materials for Experiments 1 and 3; B. Materials for Experiment 2; C. Figures for Experiment 3; D. Materials for Experiment 4; E. Materials for Experiment 5

F. Materials for Experiment 6

Sommario/riassunto

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