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Record Nr.

UNINA9910984590303321

Autore

Gotzner Nicole

Titolo

Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition / / edited by Nicole Gotzner, Jesse A. Harris, Richard Breheny, Yael Sharvit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031766763

3031766768

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, , 2946-2584

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisJesse A

BrehenyRichard

SharvitYael

Disciplina

415.01835

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Psycholinguistics

Psychology, Experimental

Natural language processing (Computer science)

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics

Experimental Psychology

Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction - Alternatives in grammar and cognition (Nicole Gotzner & Jesse A. Harris) -- Part I: The online generation and selection of alternatives in context -- Chapter 2. Generating and selecting alternatives for scalar implicature computation: The Alternative Activation Account and other theories (Nicole Gotzner & Radim Lacina) -- Chapter 3. Informational sources and discourse in the generation and maintenance of alternatives (E. Matthew Husband and Nikole D. Patson) -- Chapter 4. Constructing alternatives: Evidence for the early availability of contextually relevant focus alternatives (Christian J. Muxica & Jesse A. Harris) -- Part II: Operations on salient alternatives -- Chapter 5. Probing the probe: why inference tasks may inflate response rates for scalar implicature (Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli,



Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny) -- Chapter 6. How to operate over alternatives: The place of the L*+H pitch accent among possible focus meanings (Alexander Göbel) -- Chapter 7. Answerability Constraints on alternative-introducing salient sentences - Support from the evaluativity effects of only and from scalar implicatures (Yael Greenberg:) -- Chapter 8. Any vs. or and indefinites vs. Modals (Sam Alxatib & Andreea Nicolae) -- Commentary -- Chapter 9. Monotonicity, substitution sources, and the robustness of disjunct alternatives (Raj Singh).

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together research investigating foundational issues relating to the generation and restriction of alternative sets from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It includes contributions from noted scholars in the field to provide theoretical arguments, opinionated perspectives synthesizing existing positions, and empirical evidence from experimentation and fieldwork in support of a theoretical framework. Alternatives occupy a central place in formal semantic theory, and are referenced in accounts of various phenomena, including focus, negation, implicature, modality, counterfactuals, and contrastive topics, among others. More recently, experimental investigations have addressed the mental activation and availability of alternatives in sentence comprehension, finding that alternative meanings are computed during incremental processing, and persist in memory after sentence completion for a limited amount of time. The diverse perspectives represented in this volume will serve to clarify and guide the major avenues available in future research on the topic, and the book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in fields such as linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science. Nicole Gotzner is a Full Professor at Osnabrück University, Germany and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. She has published on a wide range of topics relating to alternatives and received the most important early-career award by the German Research Foundation for her work in this domain. Jesse A. Harris is an Associate Professor at the Linguistics Department of University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has published widely on the processing of focus-sensitive structures and other topics in experimental pragmatics. Richard Breheny is a Professor of Experimental Linguistics at University College London, UK and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. He has established one of the first labs in the area of Experimental Pragmatics and is widely recognized for his work on numerals and pragmatic inferences. Yael Sharvit is a Professor at the Linguistics Department of UCLA, USA. Her research focuses on formal semantics and the syntax-semantics interface, including work on local implicatures, NPIs and tense semantics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910377833203321

Titolo

Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment I : Function of Particles in Aquatic System / / edited by Kenji Kato, Alexei Konoplev, Stepan N. Kalmykov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-0679-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 225 p. 93 illus., 63 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

539.752

Soggetti

Water - Pollution

Radiation - Safety measures

Radiation—Safety measures

Environmental management

Environmental monitoring

Nuclear chemistry

Pollution prevention

Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection

Environmental Management

Monitoring/Environmental Analysis

Nuclear Chemistry

Industrial Pollution Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Microbial ecological function in migration of radionuclides in groundwater -- 2 Microbial diversity and possible activity in nitrate- and radionuclide-contaminated groundwater -- 3 Function of microbes on chemical species transformation of radionuclides -- 4 Direct detection of denitrifying bacteria in groundwater by GeneFISH -- 5 Difference in the solid-water distributions of radiocesium in rivers in Fukushima and Chernobyl -- 6 Function of colloidal and nanoparticles in sorption of radionuclides -- 7 Application of electron microscopy to



understanding colloid-facilitated transport of radionuclides at the Mayak Production Association facility, near Lake Karachai, Russia -- 8 Numerical analysis of migration of nitrate ions in the groundwater system of Lake Karachai Area, Southern Ural, Russia -- 9 Commentary on the function of micro- to nano-scale particles in radionuclide migration through groundwater.

Sommario/riassunto

The 3-volume set highlights the behavior of radionuclides in the environment and focusing on the development of related fields of study, including microbiology and nanoscience. In this context, it discusses the behavior of radionuclides released in areas of Lake Karachai in Ural, and those released as a result of Chernobyl accident (1986), and in Fukushima (2011). Volume I presents the experiences gained in South Urals (“Mayak” plant, Lake Karachai), providing a scientific basis for more precise understanding of the behavior of radionuclides in complex subsurface environments. On the basis of monitoring data, it examines the pathways of radionuclide migration and the influence of the geological environment and groundwater on the migration, with a particular focus on particles from the nanoscale to microscale. It also discusses the function of microbes and microscale particles, from their direct interaction with radionuclides to their ecological role in changing the physic-chemical condition of a given environment. Lastly, the protective properties of geological media are also characterized, and mathematical modeling of contaminant migration in the area of Lake Karachai is used to provide information regarding the migration of radionuclides.