Christine M. Andrew

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine M. Andrew plays a role.

Articles

Andrew, Christine M. 1980 3. On theories of focus.Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 55–63 | Article
Recent developments in linguistic theory have been motivated by an increasing concern with semantic distinctions such as "topic" and "focus" which were largely ignored in earlier theoretical treatments. However, rather distinct definitions of the term "focus" can be found in the linguistic… read more
Andrew, Christine M. 1980 7. An experimental investigation of focus.Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 215–230 | Article
In the present experimental study, subjects were asked for direct judgements of the importance of words in a set of twenty sentences which varied systematically according to voice, dative position, and location of contrastive stress. These three sentence properties were considered to have possible… read more