: Britta Stolterfoht, Sam Featherston
: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory Studies in Meaning and Structure
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781614510888
: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN
: 1
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The mental representation of language cannot be directly accessed but can only be inferred from its effects second hand. This book is a collection of papers from current research into language knowledge by systematic observational and experimental means. The articles show the wide range of methods adopted and the ingenuity required to tease out firm answers about language structure and processing. This work shows how controlled methods can advance our understanding of language, one of the defining features of humanity.



< >Britta Stolterfoht, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;Sam Featherston, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Foreword7
Part 1: Methods and analysis15
Incremental truth value judgments17
Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora43
How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese57
The annotation of preposition senses in German77
Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory97
Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory99
Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition129
Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production161
McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context183
Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states201
Focus projection between theory and evidence221
Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study255
Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language279
Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension281
Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL)305
Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically331
Index355