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Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Hemforth

    1. Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

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  2. Barbara Mertins

    1. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

    1. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  • Combinations of very well studied and understudied languages offer new perspectives on the pairing of meaning and form
  • Cross-linguistic experimental approaches combined with syntactic-semantic theoretical underpinnings and cross-disciplinary collaborative work
  • Novel insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 44)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Meaning Across Languages

    • Barbara Hemforth, Barbara Mertins, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
    Pages 1-21

  3. Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Approach

    • Bergljot Behrens, Barbara Mertins, Barbara Hemforth, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
    Pages 23-51

  4. Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses?

    • Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Lyn Frazier
    Pages 53-81

  5. Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect

    • Oliver Bott, Fritz Hamm
    Pages 83-109

  6. Referring Expressions in Speech Reports

    • Kaja Borthen, Barbara Hemforth, Barbara Mertins, Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
    Pages 111-142

  7. The Role of Grammaticality Judgments Within an Integral Approach to Brazilian Portuguese Bare Nominals

    • Albert Wall
    Pages 143-173

  8. Information Structure and Pronoun Resolution in German and French: Evidence from the Visual-World Paradigm

    • Saveria Colonna, Sarah Schimke, Barbara Hemforth
    Pages 175-195

  9. Conversational Implicatures in Anaphora Resolution: Alternative Constructions and Referring Expressions

    • Peter Baumann, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth
    Pages 197-212

  10. From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality

    • Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad
    Pages 213-251
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About this book

Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating theoretically well-founded contrastive descriptions with thorough empirical investigations. Authors answer questions on the topic of how we ‘encode’ complex thoughts into linguistic signals and how we interpret such signals in appropriate ways. Chapters combine on- and off-line empirical methods varying from large-scale corpus analyses over acceptability judgements, sentence completion studies and reading time experiments. The authors shed new light on the central questions related to our everyday use of language, especially the problem of how we construe meaning in and through language in general as well as through the means provided by particular languages.

Reviews

"Although experimental work is becoming an increasingly influential methodology in semantic and pragmatic research, much of the evidence grounding this research is still drawn from a very small pool of languages. This intriguing book is exemplary in showcasing the benefits of combining experimental work with a comparativist approach. A variety of fundamental topics (ranging from anaphoric resolution, aspectual coercion, and coordination, to discourse coherence, ellipsis, and quotation) in 9 languages are represented, studied with a variety of experimental techniques. An excellent addition to the library of any researcher in semantics or pragmatics." (Jonathan Ginzburg, UFR d'Études anglophones, Université Paris-Diderot , France)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Paris Diderot University, Paris, France

    Barbara Hemforth

  • University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Barbara Mertins

  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages

  • Editors: Barbara Hemforth, Barbara Mertins, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05675-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05674-6Published: 16 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37903-6Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05675-3Published: 01 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Syntax

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