408 Pages
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Routledge
420 Pages
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Routledge
408 Pages
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Routledge
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This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in psycholinguistic terms. The focus of the book is on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction. Structural representations reach variable levels of... Read more
1. A Structural Model of Language Production 2. Hierarchicalness and Branching in English 3. Interaction between Degree of Hierarchicalness and Position of Level in the Linguistic Hierarchy 4. Structure in the History of English 5. Structural Variation Across Languages 6. Structure and Typological Perspectives 7. Acquistion of Structure 8. Sensitivity to Structural Effects 9. Differences in Structure Sensitivity 10. The Whys and Wherefores of Structure
Biography
Thomas Berg is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and is the author of Language Structure and Change.
