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1107
Optimality theory and minimalism : a possible convergence?
eng
doc-type:book
[ "This issue of Linguistics in Potsdam contains a number of papers that grew out of the workshop Descriptive and Empirical Adequacy in Linguistics held in Berlin on December 17-19 December, 2005. One of the goals of this meeting was to bring together scholars working in various frameworks (with emphasis on the Minim...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1145
Questionnaire on information structure (OUIS): reference manual
eng
doc-type:book
[ "Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Information Structure 2 Grammatical Correlates of Information Structure 3 Structure of the Questionnaire 4 Experimental Tasks 5 Technicalities 6 Archiving 7 Acknowledgments Chapter 2. General Questions 1 General Information 2 Phonology 3 Morphology and Syntax Chapter 3. Experime...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
1186
Semantic categories and attribute knowledge : an experimental study on the semantic representations of concrete objects
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "Die Arbeit untersucht die Annahme einer unterschiedlichen Gewichtung von distinktiven enzyklopädischen, funktionalen und sensorischen Merkmalen innerhalb der Repräsentationen von Objekten der belebten und unbelebten semantischen Domäne. Hierzu wurde ein Reaktionszeitexperiment zur Merkmalsverifikation durchgeführt...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1195
Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632 - Vol. 5
eng
doc-type:book
[ "In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites. We show that sentences containing the former type of Q-adverb evidence that Quantificational Variability Effects (...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik", "Department Psychologie" ]
128
Erwerb der frühen Verbmorphologie im Estnischen
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "Die Studie untersucht den Erwerb der frühen Verbmorphologie im Estnischen. Als Datengrundlage der Arbeit dienen Spontansprachaufnahmen von 10 estnischsprachigen Kindern im Alter zwischen 10 und 32 Monaten. Die Studie versucht eine detaillierte Analyse des Erwerbs des estnischsprachigen Verbmorphologie vorzunehmen...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1294
Information structure in cross-linguistic corpora : annotation guidelines for phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and information structure
eng
doc-type:book
[ "This volume presents annotation guidelines that have been developed in the context of the SFB 632, a collaborative research center entitled \"Information Structure: the Linguistic Means for Structuring Utterances, Sentences and Texts\". An important result of the SFB 632 are the SFB corpora from more than 20 typol...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1329
Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 8
eng
doc-type:book
[ "The 8th volume of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the SFB 632 contains a collection of eight papers contributed by guest authors and SFB-members. The first paper on “Biased Questions” is an invited contribution by Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Laboratoire IRIT) & Brian...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1348
High-Speed communication : the dynamics of social acceleration and medial initiated language change exemplified by written based communication
deu
doc-type:masterThesis
[ "Die moderne Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte lässt sich – auf den Ebenen des Transports, der Informationsübertragung und der interpersonellen Kommunikation – als ein sich permanent steigernder Beschleunigungsprozess beschreiben. Insbesondere neuartige Medientechnologien verkürzen die zeitlichen Intervalle der Kommunik...
ddc:400
[ "Institut für Germanistik" ]
1361
German court room shows as communicative genres : a conversation analytical investigation of “Richter Alexander Hold”, „Richterin Barbara Salesch“ and „Das Strafgericht“
deu
doc-type:masterThesis
[ "In Gerichtsshows wie „Richter Alexander Hold“, „Richterin Barbara Salesch“ und „Das Strafgericht“ agieren Laiendarsteller semi-spontan als Teilnehmer einer fiktiven Gerichtsverhandlung. Hier wird also eine kommunikative Gattung aus der öffentlichen Kommunikation – die Gerichtsverhandlung – als Folie für eine Unter...
ddc:400
[ "Institut für Germanistik" ]
1430
The notions of information structure
eng
doc-type:book
[ "Contents: Introduction (The Editors) Basic Notions of Information Structure (Manfred Krifka) Notions of Focus Anaphoricity (Mats Rooth) Topic and Focus: Two Structural Positions Associated with Logical Functions in the Left Periphery of the Hungarian Sentence (Katalin É. Kiss) Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics ...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1433
Phonology limited
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "Phonology Limited is a study of the areas of phonology where the application of optimality theory (OT) has previously been problematic. Evidence from a wide variety of phenomena in a wide variety of languages is presented to show that interactions involving more than just faithfulness and markedness are best analy...
ddc:400
[]
1502
Der Einstieg in die Grammatik : Spracherwerb während des ersten Lebensjahres
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Die jüngere Forschung zum Spracherwerb hat gezeigt, dass sich schon in den ersten Äußerungen von Kindern bestimmte Strukturmerkmale der Sprache, die die Kinder lernen, zeigen, d.h., es gibt Bereiche, in denen im normalen Erwerb praktisch keine Fehler zu beobachten sind. Dies lässt den Schluss zu, dass die Kinder e...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1503
Functional elements in infants’ speech processing : the role of determiners in the syntactic categorization of lexical elements
eng
doc-type:article
[ "How do children determine the syntactic category of novel words? In this article we present the results of 2 experiments that investigated whether German children between 12 and 16 months of age can use distributional knowledge that determiners precede nouns and subject pronouns precede verbs to syntactically cate...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
1504
The recognition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds : evidence for lexical and structural influences on children’s early processing capacities
eng
doc-type:article
[ "Recent work has shown that English-learning 18-month-olds can detect the relationship between discontinuous morphemes such as is and -ing in Grandma is always running (Gomez, 2002; Santelmann & Jusczyk, 1998) but only at a maximum of 3 intervening syllables. In this article we examine the tracking of discontinuous...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
1505
Word processing at 19 months and its relation to language performance at 30 months : a retrospective analysis of data from German learning children
eng
doc-type:article
[ "Recent research has shown that the early lexical representations children establish in their second year of life already seem to be phonologically detailed enough to allow differentiation from very similar forms. In contrast to these findings children with specific language impairment show problems in discriminati...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
1506
The effect of phonotactic constraints in German-speaking children with delayed phonological acquisition : evidence from production of word-initial consonant clusters
eng
doc-type:article
[ "In this study the effect of phonotactic constraints concerning word-initial consonant clusters in children with delayed phonological acquisition was explored. Twelve German-speaking children took part (mean age 5;1). The spontaneous speech of all children was characterized by the regular appearance of the error pa...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
151
L'enseignement et l'apprentissage intégrés de langues vivantes par l'hypermédia dans les établissements de l'enseignement supérieur
fra
doc-type:article
[ "On peut qualifier les hyperlivres de matériaux d'enseignement et d'apprentissage innovants bâtis sur une structuration électronique des éléments du savoir. En lieu et place du texte écrit est créée une base de données, dans laquelle le texte, les schémas et le son sont organisés de façon numérique. C'est dans ce l...
ddc:440
[ "Zentrum für Sprachen und Schlüsselkompetenzen (Zessko)" ]
1518
Prjatkowanja
mul
doc-type:book
[ "Toś te knigły su pocesćenje nestora dolnoserbskego duchownstwa Herberta Nowaka k jogo 90. narodninam. Woni wopśimjeju starše a nowe serbske prijatkowanja a su rownocasnje pomnik skoro wotzabyteje klasiskeje dolnoserbskeje cerkwineje rĕcy. Daś Bog ten Knĕz wam wobraźijo spodobne cytanje.", "Das vorliegende Buch w...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Slavistik" ]
1532
How to read an "unknown" language : the acquisition of an interlingual reading competence in the Romance languages
deu
doc-type:masterThesis
[ "Plurilinguismus oder „English only“? Als politische Institution, in der es nur sprachliche und kulturelle Minderheiten gibt und geben wird, folgt die Europäische Union einer plurilinguistischen Orientierung, womit ein erheblicher Bedarf an Sprach- und Kulturkenntnissen (und deren Erwerb) verbunden ist. Grosso modo...
ddc:440
[ "Institut für Romanistik" ]
1537
Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 10
eng
doc-type:book
[ "The 10th volume of the working paper series contains two papers contributed by SFB-members. The first paper “Single prosodic phrase sentences” by Caroline Féry (A1) and Heiner Drenhaus (C6, University of Potsdam) investigates the prosody of Wide Focus Partial Fronting in a series of production and perception exper...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
154
Die im Französischunterricht an Deutschsprachige zu vermittelnden Kategorien der Verbalflexion
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags steht eine sprachwissenschaftlich verantwortete Beschreibung der im Französischunterricht auf der Sekundarstufe I zu unterrichtenden grammatischen Kategorien der Verbalflexion. Aufgrund der Mängel in verbreiteten Lehrwerken erscheint es dringend notwendig, nachvollziehbare Empfehlungen ...
ddc:440
[ "Zentrum für Sprachen und Schlüsselkompetenzen (Zessko)" ]
1540
The importance of markers for concordance for phrase segmentation : studies with infants and adults
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle von Konkordanzmarkierungen innerhalb einer Phrase für die Segmentierung eines fremden Sprachstroms. Das Merkmal der Konkordanz tritt auf, wenn alle Bestandteile einer Phrase gleichermaßen durch eine identische Markierung gekennzeichnet sind (z. B. los muchachos ricosSpan...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
156
Die Verbalflexion in Lehrplänen und Lehrwerken für den Französischunterricht an Deutschsprachige
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Der Beitrag fasst die Ergebnisse einer Forschungsarbeit zur Verbalflexion in Lehrplänen und Lehrwerken für den Französischunterricht an allgemeinbildenden Gymnasien der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zusammen. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein Problem, das bereits in der frühesten fächerübergreifenden Methodik des modernen Fre...
ddc:440
[ "Zentrum für Sprachen und Schlüsselkompetenzen (Zessko)" ]
157
Proposition d'un classement des verbes français destinée aux futurs programmes et manuels de français langue étrangère
fra
doc-type:article
[ "In dem Beitrag wird eine didaktisch verwendbare Klassifikation der französischen Verben vorgeschlagen. Den Anlaß für mein Vorhaben bildete ein Vergleich der 'Übersichten über die unregelmäßigen Verben' bzw. ' Sonstigen Verben' in den Grammatischen Beiheften verschiedener im Unterricht an allgemeinbildenden Gymnasi...
ddc:440
[ "Zentrum für Sprachen und Schlüsselkompetenzen (Zessko)" ]
158
Anna Seghers (1900 - 1983)
deu
doc-type:Other
[ "\"Deutsche, Jüdin, Kommunistin, Schriftstellerin, Frau, Mutter - so viele Identitäten, so dicht besetzt ihr Leben, so eindeutig ihr Werk. Am 19. November 2000 wurde sie 100 Jahre alt - Anna Seghers. Die Universität Potsdam hat der großen deutschen Schriftstellerin und engagierten Kommunistin, die mit ihren Exilrom...
ddc:430
[ "Institut für Germanistik" ]
1719
Spektrum Patholinguistik = Schwerpunktthema: der Erwerb von Lexikon und Semantik: Meilensteine, Störungen und Therapie ; Tagungsband zum 1. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik, 24. November 2007
deu
doc-type:PeriodicalPart
[ "Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthält alle Beiträge des 1. Herbsttreffens Patholinguistik, das am 24.11.2007 an der Universität Potsdam stattgefunden hat. Sowohl die drei Hauptvorträge zum Thema „Der Erwerb von Lexikon und Semantik – Meilensteine, Störungen und Therapie“ als auch die Kurzvorträge promovierter Pathol...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik", "Verband für Patholinguistik e. V. (vpl)" ]
1720
Modelle des kindlichen Wortschatzerwerbs
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Lange Zeit hat die Spracherwerbsforschung den Erwerb des syntaktischen Wissens in den Mittelpunkt gestellt, da Syntax als humanspezifisch angesehen und somit als der zentrale Bereich von Sprache verstanden wurde. Auch ein aktueller Aufsatz von Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch (2002) setzt die Sprachfähigkeit im eng...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1721
Frühe lexikalische Verzögerung als Indikator für SSES?
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Seit langem ist bekannt, dass Kinder mit Sprachentwicklungsstörungen meist schon in einem frühen Stadium ihrer Sprachentwicklung auffallen: die ersten Wörter werden verspätet produziert, der Wortschatz wächst langsamer an, der Vokabularspurt setzt verzögert ein oder bleibt aus, so dass das produktive Vokab...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1722
Diagnostik semantisch-lexikalischer Fähigkeiten im Grundschulalter mit dem WWT 6-10
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Etwa zwei Drittel aller Ausgaben der Krankenkassen für das Heilmittel Sprachtherapie betreffen ein Klientel in der Altersgruppe der 0- bis 15-jährigen (GVK-HIS Bundesrepublik 2007). Spracherwerbsstörungen stellen das häufigste Entwicklungsrisiko bei Kindern dar. Ca. 18% der einzuschulenden Kinder weisen ei...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1723
Semantik
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: In diesem Beitrag werden „von der Theorie zur Therapie“ aktuelle theoretische Annahmen über die Organisation semantischer Repräsentationen sowie der gegenwärtige Stand der Forschungsliteratur zur Behandlung semantischer Störungen vorgestellt. Zunächst gebe ich einen Einblick in die Fragestellungen meiner D...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1724
Die Verarbeitung von Nominalkomposita bei Aphasie
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: In der psycho- und neurolinguistischen Morphologieforschung wird die Frage behandelt, wie polymorphematische Wörter, d. h. Wörter, die aus mehr als einem Morphem bestehen (z. B. Apfel-baum; Be-mal-ung, mal-e), im mentalen Lexikon repräsentiert sind und wie sie verarbeitet werden. Spielt die interne morphol...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1725
Phonematische Neologismen beim Nachsprechen
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Bei der Beschreibung und Analyse von zentralen Störungen des Nachsprechens stehen - wie bei der Beschreibung und Analyse von Sprachproduktionsstörungen allgemein - Abweichungen auf der lautlichen Ebene zumeist im Vordergrund. In der schwersten Form solcher Störungen können dabei nur noch phonematische Neol...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1726
Die neuronale Verarbeitung von Nomen und Verben
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Wie arbeitet unser Gehirn? Was sind die Grundlagen der Kognition? Wie funktioniert unser Sprachsystem? Das ist nur ein kleiner Teil der Probleme, mit denen sich Kognitionsforscher und Neurowissenschaftler auf der ganzen Welt auseinandersetzen. Die Frage nach den neurofunktionellen Grundlagen der Sprachvera...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1727
EKP-Befunde subkortikaler Syntaxverarbeitung
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Auszug: Aphasien sind variable Sprachstörungen, die auf umschriebene Hirnläsionen zurückführbar sind und die Produktion und Verständnis separat oder kombiniert betreffen (Weniger 2003). Hierbei wird das klinische Syndrom oft mit der Lokalisation der morphologischen Gehirndefekte (z. B. durch Hirn-infarkte oder -bl...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
1728
Sammelband zur sorbischen/wendischen Kultur und Identität
deu
doc-type:book
[ "Die „Potsdamer Beiträge zur Sorabistik – Podstupimske pśinoski k Sorabistice“ sind ein Sammelband mit verschiedenen Aufsätzen zur Thematik sorbische/wendische Identität und Kultur. Die Schrift ist dazu in drei Themenbereiche unterteilt, einen Tagungsbericht von einem internationalen Kolloquium, das im November 200...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Slavistik" ]
1729
Lexical constraints in German children with Williams syndrome
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine Studie zum mentalen Lexikon bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom (WBS) präsentiert. Das Lexikon junger WBS-Kinder entwickelt sich verzögert (Mervis & Robinson, 2000). Trotzdem gilt das Lexikon jugendlicher WBS-Probanden im Vergleich zu Probanden mit anderen Syndromen als ela...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1739
Macc, Cailín and Céile – an Altaic element in Celtic?
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]In Celtic languages (both Continental and Insular) we can find words with uncertain etymology which presumably represent loanwords from other language-families. One can see the traces of the pre-Indo-European substratum of Central and Western Europe, “an original non-Celtic/non-Germanic North West bl...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1740
Celtic and Afro-Asiatic
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]It is not remarkable that structural similarities between the Insular Celtic and some Afro-Asiatic1 languages continue to exert a fascination on many people. Research into any language may be enlightening with regard to the understanding of all languages, and languages that show similar features are ...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1741
Effects of Language Contact on Roman and Gaulish Personal Names
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]The Roman conquest of what was to become the province of Gallia Narbonensis in the second and then of the whole of Transalpine Gaul in the first century B.C. led to the incorporation into the Roman empire of a large part of the territory in which Gaulish was then spoken.1 In consequence, the vernacul...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1742
Insular Celtic as a language area
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Contents: The Sociolinguistic Conditions favourable to spread of Structural Features Contact-induced Changes in Insular Celtic Phonological Changes The Lenition of Voiceless Stops Raising / i-Affection Lowering / a-Affection Apocope Syncope Morphological The Loss of Case Inflection of Personal Pronouns The Creatio...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1743
What language was spoken in Ireland before Irish?
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: That the Celtic languages were of the Indo-European family was first recognised by Rasmus Christian Rask (*1787), a young Danish linguist, in 1818. However, the fact that he wrote in Danish meant that his discovery was not noted by the linguistic establishment until long after his untimely death in 1832. ...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1744
Prepositional possessive constructions in Celtic Languages and Celtic Englishes
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...] One of the often noted characteristic features of the Celtic languages is the absence of a singular verbal form with the meaning ‘to have’.1 The principal way of expressing possession is through periphrastic constructions with prepositions (such as Irish ag, Scottish Gaelic aig ‘at’; Welsh gan, Bret...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1745
Language shift, Diglossia and dialectal variation in Western Brittany : the case of Southern Cornouaille
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]In the first part of this paper I trace the language shift from Breton to French within the historical, social and ideological framework in which it occurred. I then argue that 19th and 20th-century attempts by scholars and militants to rehabilitate the Breton language led to the creation of a unifie...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1746
“Mozeying on down ...” : the Cornish Language in North America
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Content: Cornish Scat Abroad The Next Parish after Land’s End: Early Explorations William Gwavas and that 1710 Letter Yee-Har!!: Miners and Cowboys Some Language Cowboys: Nancarrow, Bottrell and Weekes Cornish Language in Twenty-First-Century North America" ]
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1747
The growth of Irish (L1) : English (L2) Literary Code-mixing, 1600-1900: contexts, genres and realisations
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]Intriguing as they undoubtedly are, the early sixteenth-century lists of books in the Earl of Kildare’s library may well have inadvertently helped to lull scholars into visualising a rather idealised picture of language balance in multilingual late medieval Ireland. The lists reflect a society in whi...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1748
Syntax and prosody in language contact and shift
deu
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]It is true that scholars concentrate on a certain linguistic level in order to reach the greatest depth in their research. But this general stance should not lead to a complete neglect of other levels. When considering a multi-level phenomenon such as language contact and shift, concentration on a si...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1749
Of picts and penguins – Celtic Languages in the New Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]The New English Dictionary, later to become the Oxford English Dictionary, was first published between 1884 and 1928. To add new material, two supplements were issued after this, the first in 1933, and another, more extensive one between 1972 and 1986. In 1989, the Oxford English Dictionary, second e...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1750
Late Modern Irish and the Dynamics of Language Change and Language Death
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Contents: Definition of Late Modern Irish Lexical and Syntactic Equivalence The Official Languages Act and the Translation Industry Dynamics of Language Change and Language Death Lack of Exposure and Critical Mass" ]
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1751
Assessing Celticity in a corpus of Irish Standard English
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Conventional wisdom since the earliest studies of Irish English has attributed much of what is distinctive about this variety to the influence of the Irish language. From the early philologists (Joyce 1910, van Hamel 1912) through the classic works of Henry (1957, 1958) and Bliss (1979) down to present-day linguis...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1752
On the ‘Celticity’ of Irish Newspapers : a research report
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Extract: [...]Of all the print-media newspapers are the most commonly used. They are not literature in the sense of belles letters, but they should not be underestimated in their political, social and personal importance. No other printed product is as closely linked with everyday life as the newspapers. The day b...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1753
Language contact, change of language status : ‘Celtic’ national languages in the British Isles and Ireland
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "Contents: Conceptual Clarifications Contact Situations – a Brief Outline Under Scrutiny I: Cornwall, Isle of Man and Scotland Under scrutiny II: Wales Under Scrutiny III: Ireland – a Lengthy Discourse" ]
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik" ]
1754
Prosodic focus in Vietnamese
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "This paper reports on pilot work on the expression of Information Structure in Vietnamese and argues that Focus in Vietnamese is exclusively expressed prosodically: there are no specific focus markers, and the language uses phonology to express intonational emphasis in similar ways to languages like English or Ger...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1755
Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables. From the morpho-syntactic point of view, the grammar of Yucatec Maya contains morphological (topic affixes, mo...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1756
Information structure in linguistic theory and in speech production : validation of a Cross-Linguistic data set
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The aim of this paper is to validate a dataset collected by means of production experiments which are part of the Questionnaire on Information Structure. The experiments generate a range of information structure contexts that have been observed in the literature to induce specific constructions. This paper compare...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1757
The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The paper investigates focus marking devices in the scarcely documented North-Ghanaian Gur language Konkomba. The two particles lé and lá occur under specific focus conditions and are therefore regarded as focus markers in the sparse literature. Comparing the distribution and obligatoriness of both alleged focus m...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1758
Focus expressions in Foodo
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: the focused constituent is in sentence-initial position and is second always marked obl...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1759
Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure
eng
doc-type:article
[ "Human manual action exhibits a differential use of a non-dominant (typically, left) and a dominant (typically, right) hand. Human communication exhibits a pervasive structuring of utterances into topic and comment. I will point out striking similarities between the coordination of hands in bimanual actions, and th...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1760
The interpretation of Universally Quantified DPs and singular definites in adverbially quantified sentences
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper deals with the conditions under which singular definites, on the one hand, and universally quantified DPs, on the other hand, receive interpretations according to which the sets denoted by the NP-complements of the respective determiner vary with the situations quantified over by a Q-adverb. I show that...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1761
Intonation and discourse
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions. We postulate that these question types are complex speech acts and outline an analysis in Segmented Discour...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1762
Focus asymmetries in Bura
eng
doc-type:article
[ "(Chadic), which exhibits a number of asymmetries: Grammatical focus marking is obligatory only with focused subjects, where focus is marked by the particle án following the subject. Focused subjects remain in situ and the complement of án is a regular VP. With nonsubject foci, án appears in a cleft-structure betwe...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1763
Single prosodic phrase sentences
eng
doc-type:article
[ "A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are reported on here. The results help us to decide between different mo...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1765
Quantificational Variability Effects with plural definites
eng
doc-type:article
[ "In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites. We show that sentences containing the former type of Q-adverb evidence that Quantificational Variability Effects (...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1766
Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic)
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "The paper presents an in-depth study of focus marking in Gùrùntùm, a West Chadic language spoken in Bauchi Province of Northern Nigeria. Focus in Gùrùntùm is marked morphologically by means of a focus marker a, which typically precedes the focus constituent. Even though the morphological focus-marking system of Gù...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1767
A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The paper presents a novel approach to explaining word order variation in the early Germanic languages. Initial observations about verb placement as a device marking types of rhetorical relations made on data from Old High German (cf. Hinterhölzl & Petrova 2005) are now reconsidered on a larger scale and compared ...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1768
The recognition of the prosodic focus position in German-learning infants from 4 to 14 months
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The aim of the present study was to elucidate in a study with 4-, 6-, 8-, and 14-month-old German-learning children, when and how they may acquire the regularities which underlie Focus-to-Stress Alignment (FSA) in the target language, that is, how prosody is associated with specific communicative functions. Our fi...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1769
An analysis of pitch and duration in material used to test L2 processing of words
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The material reported on in this paper is part of a set of experiments in which the role of Information Structure on L2 processing of words is tested. Pitch and duration of 4 sets of experimental material in German and English are measured and analyzed in this paper. The well-known finding that accent boosts durat...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1770
On 'nicht...sondern...' (contrastive 'not...but...')
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This article presents an analysis of German nicht...sondern... (contrastive not...but...) which departs from the commonly held view that this construction should be explained by appeal to its alleged corrective function. It will be demonstrated that in nicht A sondern B (not A but B), A and B just behave like stan...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1771
Basic notions of information structure
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a general characterization of IS — following Chafe (1976) — within a communicative model of Common Ground(CG), which distinguishes between CG content and CG management. IS is concerned with those features of language tha...
ddc:400
[ "Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur", "Department Linguistik" ]
1773
Notions of focus anaphoricity
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This article reviews some of the theoretical notions and empirical phenomena which figure in current formal-semantic theories of focus. It also develops the connection between “alternative semantics” and “givenness” accounts of focus interpretation." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1774
Topic and focus
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "The paper explicates the notions of topic, contrastive topic, and focus as used in the analysis of Hungarian. Based on distributional criteria, topic and focus are claimed to represent distinct structural positions in the left periphery of the Hungarian sentence, associated with logical rather than discourse funct...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1775
Direct and indirect aboutness topics
eng
doc-type:article
[ "We propose a definition of aboutness topicality that not only encompasses individual denoting DPs, but also indefinites. We concentrate on the interpretative effects of marking indefinites as topics: they either receive widest scope in their clause, or they are interpreted in the restrictor of an overt or covert Q...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1776
Information Structure as information-based partition
eng
doc-type:article
[ "While the Information Structure (IS) is most naturally interpreted as 'structure of information', some may argue that it is structure of something else, and others may object to the use of the word 'structure'. This paper focuses on the question of whether the informational component can have structural properties...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1777
Focus presuppositions
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus. It is argued that these examples are open to a different analy...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1778
Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of “Discourse-New”
eng
doc-type:bookPart
[ "New evidence is provided for a grammatical principle that singles out contrastive focus (Rooth 1996; Truckenbrodt 1995) and distinguishes it from discourse-new “informational” focus. Since the prosody of discourse-given constituents may also be distinguished from discourse-new, a three-way distinction in represent...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1779
Contrastive focus
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The article puts forward a discourse-pragmatic approach to the notoriously evasive phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. It is argued that occurrences of focus that are treated in terms of ‘contrastive focus’, ‘kontrast’ (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998) or ‘identificational focus’ (É. Kiss 1998) in the literature shou...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1780
Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates
eng
doc-type:article
[ "In a first step, definitions of the irreducible information structural categories are given, and in a second step, it is shown that there are no invariant phonological or otherwise grammatical correlates of these categories. In other words, the phonology, syntax or morphology are unable to define information struc...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1781
Notions and subnotions in information structure
eng
doc-type:article
[ "Three dimensions can be distinguished in a cross-linguistic account of information structure. First, there is the definition of the focus constituent, the part of the linguistic expression which is subject to some focus meaning. Second and third, there are the focus meanings and the array of structural devices tha...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1782
The restricted access of information structure to syntax
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper sketches the view that syntax does not directly interact with information structure. Therefore, syntactic data are of little help when one wants to narrow down the interpretation of terms such as “focus”, “topic”, etc." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1783
Focus and Tone
eng
doc-type:article
[ "Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category focus is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies. In intonation languages, focus is marked by pitch movements, which are also perceived as ...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1832
Le Vieux-Gallois
fra
doc-type:book
[ "Alexander I. Falilejevs Edition altwalisischer/altkymrischer Texte bietet eine erstmalige Zu-sammenstellung sämtlicher erhaltener Textzeugnisse dieser inselkeltischen Sprache. Sie datieren in die Zeit vor dem Jahr 1000 n.Chr. zurück. Jeder Text ist mit einem Glossar und einem ausführlichen linguistischen Kommentar...
ddc:490
[ "Institut für Romanistik" ]
1833
Die Verarbeitung von negativen Imperativen im Bulgarischen : Evidenz aus Spracherwerb und Sprachstörung
eng
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "The incremental nature of sentence processing raises questions about the way the information of incoming functional elements is accessed and subsequently employed in building the syntactic structure which sustains interpretation processes. The present work approaches these questions by investigating the negative p...
ddc:400
[ "Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften" ]
187
Die Behandlung von Wortabrufstörungen bei Aphasie : eine methodenvergleichende Studie zum Bildbenennen
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "In einer multiplen Einzelfallstudie mit zehn aphasischen Patienten wurde die Wirksamkeit eines semantischen und eines phonologischen Therapieansatzes zur Behandlung von Wortabrufstörungen verglichen. Detaillierte Einzelfalluntersuchungen ermöglichten die Diagnose der zugrundeliegenden funktionalen Störungen bei je...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
1968
Vorbehalte gegenüber der Leidenschaft
deu
doc-type:article
[ "Enthaltener Parallelsachtitel des Werkes: Réserves sur la Passion; Marguerite Duras et la métaphorisation du monde. Enthält zusätzlich den Beitrag: Diskussion im Anschluss an den Eröffnungsvortrag am 20. April 2005 im Filmmuseum Potsdam, sowie dessen Parallelsachtitel: Discussion consécutive à la conférence inaugu...
ddc:440
[ "Institut für Romanistik" ]
2029
Phonology and intonation
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects of information structure, in languages across a range of prosodic types. The guidelines are designed with the aim that a nonspecialist in phonology can both implement an...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2032
Introduction [ISIS (2007) 07: Information structure in Cross-Linguistic Corpora]
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The annotation guidelines introduced in this chapter present an attempt to create a unique infrastructure for the encoding of data from very different languages. The ultimate target of these annotations is to allow for data retrieval for the study of information structure, and since information structure interacts...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2033
Morphology
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The guidelines for morphological annotation contain the layers that are necessary for understanding the structure of the words in the object language: morphological segmentation, glossing, and annotation of part-of-speech." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2034
Syntax
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The guidelines for syntactic annotation contain the layers that are especially relevant for queries related to the interaction of information structure with syntax. The layers of this level are constituent structure, grammatical functions, and semantic roles." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2035
Semantics
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The guidelines for semantics comprise a number of layers related to quantificational structures as well as some crucial semantic properties of NPs with respect to information structure: definiteness, countability, and animacy." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2036
Information structure
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed." ]
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2122
EVEN, ALSO and ONLY in Vietnamese
deu
doc-type:book
[ "The article analyzes the system of focus-sensitive particles and, to a lesser extent, clefts in Vietnamese. EVEN/ALSO/ONLY foci are discussed across syntactic categories, and Vietnamese is found to organize its system of focus-sensitive particles along three dimensions of classification: (i) EVEN vs. ALSO vs. ONLY...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
219
Adverbstellung : ein optimalitätstheoretischer Ansatz
eng
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "Adverb positioning is guided by syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic considerations and is subject to cross-linguistic as well as language-specific variation. The goal of the thesis is to identify the factors that determine adverb placement in general (Part I) as well as in constructions in which the adverb's sister...
ddc:400
[ "Adverb", "Syntax", "Lesart", "Variation", "Informationsstruktur", "Department Linguistik" ]
2260
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2)
eng
doc-type:book
[ "This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI2), held at University of Potsdam on March 18, 2005. WPSI 2 was aimed to discuss issues on the interaction of prosody, syntax, and information structure, from interdisciplinary points of view. The contributo...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2261
Focus and intonation in Japanese
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper discusses how focus changes prosodic structure in Tokyo Japanese. It is generally believed that focus blocks the intonational process of downstep and causes a pitch reset. This paper presents experimental evidence against this traditional view by looking at the prosodic behavior of Wh words, which recei...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
2262
When we fail to question in Japanese
eng
doc-type:article
[ "When we pay close attention to the prosody of Wh-questions in Japanese, we discover many novel and interesting empirical puzzles that would require us to devise a much finer syntactic component of grammar. This paper addresses the issues that pose some problems to such an elaborated grammar, and offers solutions, ...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
2263
Intonation of sentences with an NPI
eng
doc-type:article
[ "This paper presents the results of a production experiment on the intonation of sentences containing a negative polarity item (NPI) in Tokyo Japanese. The results show that NPI sentences exhibit a focus intonation: the F₀-peak of the word to which an NPI is attached is raised, while the pitch contour after the NPI...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2264
Intervention effects in focus
eng
doc-type:article
[ "The most recent trend in the studies of LF intervention effects makes crucial reference to focusing effects on the interveners, and this paper critically examines the representative analyses of the focus-based approach. While each analysis has its own merits and shortcomings, I argue that a pragmatic analysis that...
ddc:400
[ "Extern", "Department Linguistik" ]
2451
Treating tracheotomized patients with severe dysphagia : an explorative evaluation of a multidisciplinary treatment protocol
deu
doc-type:doctoralThesis
[ "In der neurologischen Rehabilitation werden in zunehmendem Maße tracheotomierte Patienten mit schweren Dysphagien behandelt. Daher sollte den hierzu bisher entwickelten Interventionsverfahren eine evidenzbasierte Grundlage gegeben werden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein multidisziplinärer Behandlungsansatz zur...
ddc:400
[ "Department Linguistik" ]
2519
Applications of diamonded double negation
eng
doc-type:conferenceObject
[ "Nested complementation plays an important role in expressing counter- i.e. star-free and first-order definable languages and their hierarchies. In addition, methods that compile phonological rules into finite-state networks use double-nested complementation or “double negation”. This paper reviews how the double-n...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
2520
Asymmetric term alignment with selective contiguity constraints by multi-tape automata
eng
doc-type:conferenceObject
[ "This article describes a HMM-based word-alignment method that can selectively enforce a contiguity constraint. This method has a direct application in the extraction of a bilingual terminological lexicon from a parallel corpus, but can also be used as a preliminary step for the extraction of phrase pairs in a Phra...
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]
2521
Finite-state compilation of feature structures for two-level morphology
eng
doc-type:conferenceObject
[ "This paper describes a two-level formalism where feature structures are used in contextual rules. Whereas usual two-level grammars describe rational sets over symbol pairs, this new formalism uses tree structured regular expressions. They allow an explicit and precise definition of the scope of feature structures....
ddc:400
[ "Extern" ]