20.1192, Books: General Linguistics: Berg

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Subject: 20.1192, Books: General Linguistics: Berg

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Date: 30-Mar-2009
From: Rachel Markowitz < Rachel.Markowitz at taylorandfrancis.com >
Subject: Structure in Language: Berg

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:34:07
From: Rachel Markowitz [Rachel.Markowitz at taylorandfrancis.com]
Subject: Structure in Language: Berg

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Title: Structure in Language 
Subtitle: A Dynamic Perspective 
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://routledge.com/9780415991353 

Author: Thomas Berg

Hardback: ISBN: 0415991358 9780415991353 Pages: 396 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0415991358 9780415991353 Pages: 396 Price: U.S. $ 135.00

Abstract:

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 activation and are therefore gradient in nature.
Their variable strength is claimed to account for numerous effects
including differences between individual analytical levels, differences
between languages as well as pathways of language acquisition and
breakdown. English is found to be consistent in its branching direction and
to have evolved its branching direction in line with the cross-level
harmony constraint. Structure sensitivity is argued to be highly variable
both within and across languages and consequently an unlikely candidate for
a defining property of human language. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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