Analysing =?windows-1252?Q?=93starting_points=94_?=in complex sentences

[Tom Roeper]

You might want to look at this paper on Point of View which
I think could be relevant.  It is certainly relevant to the broad
issue of perspective-taking.

Tom Roeper


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Gerlind Gro�e <Gerlind.Grosse at eva.mpg.de>wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> We would like to analyze a corpus of children’s stories (5 year olds)
> regarding the type of starting points. We depart from the Perspective
> Hypothesis (MacWinney, 1977, 2008, Gernsbacher 1990) which holds that
> “…given a choice between two starting points, speakers and listeners prefer
> the starting point closest to the one they assume or which to assume in
> their own interactions with the world.” Now, our current question is about
> how to determine starting points in complex sentences or sentence
> fragments. Does each sub-clause indicate a new starting point? Is the
> starting point always the very first element or the first main functional
> element, i.e. (SVO)? We are dealing with German which has a flexible word
> order.
> Any ideas, references or advices are welcome.
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Lars White, and Gerlind Grosse
> (Leipzig)
>
>
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