Overview

This book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and exemplifies new experimental and analytic techniques for studying linguistic interfaces. Speaking a language requires access to the different aspects of its grammar - semantic, syntactic, phonological, pragmatic, morphological, and phonetic. Knowing how these interact is crucial to understanding the operations of any specific language and to the explanation of how language in general operates in the mind. The new research presented here combines theoretical and experimental perspectives on one of the most productive fields in contemporary linguistics. After the editors' introduction the volume is organized along four themes: the structural properties of sentences interfacing with meaning and the lexicon; internal word structure and its effect on the syntactic and phonological components; the syntax-phonology interface and its relation to the phonetics-phonology interface; and the implications of interfaces for language acquisition and language processing. The book will interest theoretical linguists and all those in linguistics and cognitive science working on the mental operations of language.

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Author:   Professor Raffaella Folli (Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Communication, University of Ulster) ,  Christiane Ulbrich (Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Communication, University of Ulster)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   31
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.686kg
ISBN:  

9780199567249

ISBN 10:   0199567247
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   02 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Section I: The Structural Properties of Sentences Interfacing with Meaning and the Lexicon 1: Robert Truswell: Cycle Interaction of Event Structure and A' Locality 2: Kyle Johnson: Determiners and Movement 3: Artemis Alexiadou: Post-verbal Nominatives: an Unaccusativity Diagnostic Under Scrutiny 4: Nigel Duffield: Unaccusativity in Vietnamese and Structural Consequences of Inadvertent Causes 5: Matthew Whelpton: Building Resultatives in Icelandic 6: Jamal Ouhalla: Categorization and the Interface Levels 7: Reiko Vermeulen: Non-topical Wa-phrases in Japanese Section II: The Morphological Properties of Words Interfacing with Syntax and Phonology 8: Naoko Tomioka: Word-internal Modification Without the Syntax-Morphology Interface 9: Heidi Harley: Affixation and the Mirror Principle 10: Lisa Travis: Phases and Navajo Verbal Morphology 11: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Jaklin Kornfilt: The Syntax and Prosody of Turkish ""Pre-stressing"" Suffixes Section III: Sound Interfacing with Structure 12: Peter Ackema: Restrictions on Subject Extraction: A PF Interface Account 13: Suwon Yoon: An Experimental Approach to Intervension of Wh-phrases: Prosody and Syntax Interface 14: Jim Scobbie and Koen Sebregts: Acoustic, Articulatory, and Phonological Perspectives on Allophonic Variation of /r/ in Dutch 15: Jonathan Howell: Second Occurrence Focus and the Acoustics of Prominence 16: Sang-Cheol Ahn and Juhee Lee: Loan Adaptation of laryngeal Features Section IV: Experimental Work on Interface Issues 17: Andrea Gualmini: Scope Ambiguity in Child Language: Old And New Problems 18: Ute Bohnacker and Christina Rosén: Interaction of Syntax and Discourse Pragmatics in Closely Related Languages: How native Swedes, Native Germans, and Swedish-Speaking Learners of German Start Their Sentences 19: Chien-Jer Charles Lin: Processing (In)alienable Possessions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface 20: Elsi Kaiser, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman, and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Picturing the Syntax/Semantics Interface: On-line Interpretation of Pronouns and Relfexives in Picture NPs"

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Raffaella Folli is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. Her research interests are theoretical and comparative syntax and language processing with special focus on the syntax-lexicon and syntax-semantics interfaces. She has published work in Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, TICS among others, as well as in many edited volumes. Christiane Ulbrich is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. She has worked on segmental and prosodic characteristics in varieties of German. Her current research focuses on the contribution of segments and prosody in second language acquisition at the interface of phonetics and phonology. She is the author of Phonetische Untersuchungen zur Prosodie der Standardvarietäten des Deutschen (Phonetic investigation of prosody in standard varieties of German) (Peter Lang, 2005).

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