Mediating between concepts and grammar / edited by Holden Härtl, Heike Tappe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Härtl, Holden.

Tappe, Heike.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics : Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Researchers with backgrounds in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psychology have contributed to the interdisciplinary discussion of the interface between conceptual representations and linguistic structures. This book fills a critical gap in cognitive science. The study implements the objective of determining the impact that adjoining non-linguistic cognitive systems have on linguistic encoding, the mapping between representations, and the requirements of language processing. In this setting event conceptualization and verbalization is treated as one central phenomenon from the different interdisciplinary viewpoints. Theoretical analyses are confronted with psycholinguistic findings about the processing of event representations. Further empirical issues like the influence of visual perception on speech become apparent since we are primarily concerned with the overall architecture of the language processing system as an integral part of the cognitive endowment. Here, the lexicon is recognized as a mediator between linguistic and non-linguistic, semantic and syntactic components. The volume constitutes a major contribution to knowledge in the field and will be of value to an interdisciplinary audience.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures / Tappe, Heike / Härtl, Holden

Mediating between non-linguistic and linguistic structures

Coordination of eye gaze and speech in sentence production / Meulen, Femke F. van der

Time patterns in visual reception and written phrase production / Cummins, Philip / Gutbrod, Boris / Weingarten, Rüdiger

Animacy effects in language production: From mental model to formulator / Nice, Kathy Y. van / Dietrich, Rainer

Word order scrambling as a consequence of incremental sentence production / Kempen, Gerard / Harbusch, Karin

The linearization of argument DPs and its semantic reflection / Späth, Andreas

Semantics as a gateway to language / Wiese, Heike

Mediating between event conceptualization and verbalization

Temporal relations between event concepts / Meer, Elke van der / Beyer, Reinhard / Hagendorf, Herbert / Strauch, Dirk / Kolbe, Matthias

Segmenting event sequences for speaking / Nüse, Ralf

Events: Processing and neurological properties / Piñango, Maria Mercedes

Aspectual (re-)interpretation: Structural representation and processing / Dölling, Johannes

Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view / Egg, Markus / Striegnitz, Kristina

The mediating function of the lexicon

The thematic interpretation of plural nominalizations / Ehrich, Veronika

Competing principles in the lexicon / Schalley, Andrea C.

Concepts of motion and their linguistic encoding / Tschander, Ladina B.

Too abstract for agents? The syntax and semantics of agentivity in abstracts of English research articles / Dorgeloh, Heidrun / Wanner, Anja

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110919585

3110919583

OCLC:

979590050