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Gradience in Grammar
Generative Perspectives
Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Ralf Vogel
416 pages
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Numerous tables and line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927479-6
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Hardback
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19 October 2006
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- Presents the state of the art in grammatical gradience: the degree to which an utterance is acceptable or grammatical
- Focus is a key area of current research and debate in linguistics
- Written by an international range of leading scholars
- Covers a wide range of languages
This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar - the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality. Gradience is at the centre of controversial issues in the theory of grammar and the understanding of language. The acceptability of words and sentences may be linked to the frequency of their use and measured on a scale. Among the questions considered in the book are: whether such measures are beyond the scope of a generative grammar or, in other words, whether the factors influencing acceptability are internal or external to grammar; whether observed gradience is a property of the
mentally represented grammar or a reflection of variation among speakers; and what gradient phenomena reveal about the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality, and between competence and performance.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I seeks to clarify the nature of gradience from the perspectives of phonology, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Parts II and III examine issues in phonology and syntax. Part IV considers long wh-movement from different methodological perspectives. The data discussed comes from a wide range of languages and dialects, and includes tone and stress patterns, word order variation, and question formation.
Gradience in Grammar will interest linguists concerned with the
understanding of syntax, phonology, language acquisition and variation, discourse, and the operations of language within the mind. Readership: Linguists at graduate level and above concerned with the understanding of syntax, phonology, language variation and acquisition, discourse, and the operations of language within the mind.
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Gisbert Fanselow, University of Potsdam, Caroline Fery, University of Potsdam, Matthias Schlesewsky, Phillips University of Margurg, and Ralf Vogel, Phillips University of Margurg Contributors:
Adam Albright, MIT
Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam
Ina Bornkessel, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Radboud Univeristy, Nijmegen
Abigail Cohn, Cornell University
Leonie Cornips, Meertens Institute
Matthew Crocker, University of Saarlund
Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University
Gisbert
Fanselow, University of Potsdam
Caroline Fery, University of Potsdam
Janet Fodor, City University of New York
Stefan Frisch, University of Leipzig
Stefan A. Frisch, University of Southern Florida
John Hawkins, Cambridge University
Bruce Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University
Brian McElree, New York University
Eric Reuland, Utrecht University
Matthias Schlesewsky, Phillips University of Marburg
Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
Adrienne Stearns, University of Potsdam
Ruben Stoel, University of Potsdam
Ralph Vogel, University of Bielefeld
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1: Gilbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery, Ralf Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky: Gradience in Grammar
Part I The Nature of Gradience
2: Abigail Cohn: Is There Gradient Phonology?
3: Eric Reuland: Gradedness: Interpretive Dependencies and Beyond
4: Stefan Frisch and Adrienne Stearns: Linguistic and Metalinguistic Tasks in Phonology: Methods and Findings
5: Leonie Cornips: Intermediate Syntactic Variants in a Dialect: Standard Speech Repertoire and Relative Acceptability
6: Antonella Sorace: Gradedness and Optionality in Mature and Developing Grammars
7: Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel, and Brian McElree: Decomposing Gradience: Quantitative vs Qualitative Distinctions
Part II Gradience in Phonology
8: Paul Boersma: Prototypicality Judgments As Inverted Perception
9: Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes: Modeling Productivity with The Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations
10: Caroline Fery and Ruben Stoel: Gradient Perception of Intonation
Part III Gradience in Syntax
11: John A. Hawkins: Gradedness as Relative Efficiency in the Processing of Syntax and Semantics
12: Matthew W. Crocker and Frank Keller: Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing
13: Ralf Vogel: Degraded Acceptability and Markedness in Syntax, and the Stochastic Interpretation of Optimality Theory
14: Frank Keller: Linear Optimality Theory as a Model of Gradience in Grammar
Part IV Gradience in Wh-Movement Constructions
15: Gisbert Fanselow and Stefan Frisch: Effects of Processing Difficulty on Judgements of Acceptability
16: Nomi Erteschik-Shir: What's What?
17: Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Janet Dean Fodor: Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Judgments
References
Index
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