Strategies and Structures
The processing of relative clauses
Authors
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
Preface | p. v
-
Table of contents | p. vii
-
1. Introduction | p. 1
-
2. Cognitive strategies | p. 9
-
3. Relative clauses | p. 49
-
4. Studies in relative acceptability | p. 63
-
5. Studies in comprehension and production | p. 89
-
6. Studies in text analysis | p. 111
-
7. Studies from other languages | p. 127
-
8. Conclusion | p. 145
-
-
Appendices | p. 177
-
Index | p. 189
Cited by
Cited by 4 other publications
Akinlotan, Mayowa
Chen, Yi-Fen, Tzu-Ting Pang & Boedi Hartadi Kuslina
Ito, Akihiro
2001. Japanese EFL Learners' Processing in English Relativization. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 133-134 ► pp. 325 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 16 april 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General