Experimental Linguistics

Integration of theories and applications

Editors

Gary D. Prideaux | University of Alberta

Bruce L. Derwing | University of Alberta

Will Baker | University of Alberta

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Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative possibilities. In addition, the theory can perhaps suggest some hints as to the direction experimental studies might take, at least to the extent that it suggest various kinds of relation among syntactic or phonological structures. But the theory alone cannot determine the nature of such relations in the cognitive or processing system of the language user. The first section of this volume addresses several of the key theoretical controversies in linguistics and attempts to specify the kinds of experimental evidence which might contribute to their ultimate resolution. The papers in the second section concern the collection of that evidence and its interpretation.

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.

Publishing status: | Original publisher:E. Story-Scientia

https://doi.org/10.1075/ssls.3

Table of Contents

Introduction: Experimental linguistics in historical perspective.

B.L. Derwig, Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker | pp. 1–13

PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction)

1. On paraphrase.

Paul Fletcher | pp. 21–34

2. What is structural ambiguity?

P.G. Patel | pp. 21–34

3. On theories of focus.

Christine M. Andrew | pp. 55–63

4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language.

Mary Lois Marckworth | pp. 65–80

5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation.

B.L. Derwig | pp. 81–112

PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction)

1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation.

Will Baker, Gary D. Prideaux and B.L. Derwig | pp. 121–140

2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task.

J. Raymond Reid | pp. 141–155

3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency?

Will Baker and Gary D. Prideaux | pp. 157–173

4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness.

Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker | pp. 175–183

5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences.

Paul Fletcher | pp. 185–201

6. The recognition of ambiguity.

Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker | pp. 203–213

7. An experimental investigation of focus.

Christine M. Andrew | pp. 215–230

8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres.

Mary Lois Marckworth and Will Baker | pp. 231–246

9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural).

B.L. Derwig and Will Baker | pp. 247–272

10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition.

John C.L. Ingram | pp. 273–291

Epilogue: An "information structure" view of language.

Will Baker | pp. 293–307

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