Structure in language : a dynamic perspective / Thomas Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Thomas, 1957-

Series:

Routledge studies in linguistics ; 10.

Routledge studies in linguistics ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural linguistics.

Physical Description:

xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

1 A Structural Model of Language Production 1

1.1 The Double Hierarchy 1

1.2 Content versus Structural Units 2

1.3 Cohesiveness as the Litmus Test 4

1.4 Two Types of Structural Units 14

1.5 The Whys and Wherefores of Multilevel Structural Units 23

1.6 Implementing Structure 25

1.7 Review and Preview 28

2 Constituent Structure and Branching Direction in English 33

2.2 Previous Work in Linguistics and Its Shortcomings 36

2.3 Constituent Structure and Branching Direction in Syntax 45

2.4 Constituent Structure and Branching Direction in Morphology 56

2.5 Constituent Structure and Branching Direction in Phonology 91

3 Level-Specific Differences in Hierarchicalness 129

3.2 Level-Specific Differences in Competition and Their Processing Consequences 130

3.3 A Preliminary Test of the Level-Specific-Differences Hypothesis 132

4 Structural Variation Across Time 137

4.2 Sentence Structure 139

4.3 Word Structure 153

4.4 Syllable Structure 171

5 Structural Variation Across Languages 186

5.2 The VP in English and German 189

5.3 Phonological-Word Structure in English and German versus Spanish and French 203

5.4 Syllable Structure in English, Arabic and Korean 221

6 Branching Direction (and Hierarchicalness) from a Typological Perspective 237

6.2 Syntax: Subject-Verb-Object Sentences 237

6.3 Morphology: Prefix-Stem-Suffix Structures 239

6.4 Phonology: CVC Syllables 241

7 How Structure Is Acquired 246

7.2 First Language Acquisition 250

7.3 Second Language Acquisition 259

8 How Structure Breaks Down 272

8.2 Adulthood Aphasia 275

8.3 Childhood Aphasia 294

8.4 A Link Between Syntactic and Phonological Disturbances? 297

9 Structure Across Output Modalities 303

9.2 Data Analysis 305

10 The Whys and Wherefores of Structure 325

10.2 The Benefit of Hierarchical Right-Branching Representations 325

10.3 Additional Factors Influencing Hierarchization 328

10.4 The Relative Uniformity of Structural Representations 339

10.5 The Role of Structure Dependence in Language and Linguistics 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-392) and index.

ISBN:

9780415991353

0415991358

OCLC:

222249963