Strategies and structures : the processing of relative clauses / Gary D. Prideaux and William J. Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prideaux, Gary Dean.

Contributor:

Baker, William J.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 46.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV. Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acceptability (Linguistics).

Cognition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Relative clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 197 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1986.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a hypothesis of how they interact with linguistic structures has been reached, it will be explored how such strategies are employed by examining experiments which address the role played by certain of these strategies in the comprehension and production of sentences. The authors draw a distinction between a strategy on the one hand and a grammatical structure on the other. They argued that, in principle, strategies ought to be formulated as language-independent, cognitively based operations which are involved in cognitive domains other than language, but which, in language processing, interact with language-specific structures to facilitate processing. Moreover, strategies are not linguistic rules, since, unlike rules, they permit exceptions and express tendencies rather than firm yes-no choices.

Contents:

STRATEGIES AND STRUCTURES THE PROCESSING OF RELATIVE CLAUSES

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

PREFACE

Table of contents

CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION

Preliminaries

Processing Considerations

Goals

Preview

CHAPTER TWO. COGNITIVE STRATEGIES

Introduction

Production and Comprehension

Cognitive Strategies: An Early Perspective

Strategies and Structures

Parsing Strategies

Some Sentence-Level Strategies

Relative Clause Strategies

Discourse Strategies

Summary.

CHAPTER THREE. RELATIVE CLAUSES

Relative Clause Structures

The Choice of Relative Clauses

Independent Variables

Stimulus Materials

Predictions

Research Methodologies

CHAPTER FOUR. STUDIES IN RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY

Grammatically and Acceptability

Acceptability and Processing Ease

Experiment One: Category Judgements

Experiment Two: Scaling Judgements

Experiment Three: Rank Ordering Judgements

Summary and Conclusions

CHAPTER FIVE. STUDIES IN COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION

Experiment Four: Visual Display

Experiment Five: TV Presentation

Conclusions

CHAPTER SIX. STUDIES IN TEXT ANALYSIS

Introduction7

The Texts

Results

CHAPTER SEVEN. STUDIES FROM OTHER LANGUAGES

Studies in Japanese and Korean

Studies in Ukrainian

Summary

CHAPTER EIGHT. CONCLUSIONS

General Results

On the Nature of Strategies

Modularity

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A. STIMULUS MATERIALS FOR EXPERIMENTS 1 AND 2

APPENDIX B. STIMULUS MATERIALS FOR EXPERIMENT 3

APPENDIX C. EXPERIMENT 1 INSTRUCTIONS

INDEX

The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-04731-4

9786613047311

90-272-8626-4

OCLC:

709596546