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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:03:17
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding: deCastro-Arrazola

 


Title: Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/typological-tendencies-in-verse-and-their-cognitive-grounding 


Author: Varun deCastro-Arrazola

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932847 Pages: 179 Price: Europe EURO 30.00


Abstract:

This dissertation is about verse, some of its recurrent features, and
cognitive aspects which can explain their prevalence. Verse includes a range
of verbal phenomena, most typically songs and poems, but also nursery rhymes,
religious chants or demonstration slogans. Compared to everyday speech, all
these forms show additional layers of structure, like a regular alternation of
accented syllables, a fixed melody, or a systematic number of syllables per
utterance. Every linguistic community in the world engages in verse, but
certain features seem suspiciously widespread.

On the one hand, I have developed computational tools in order to assess
systematically how widespread individual verse features are. On the other
hand, I have conducted behavioural experiments to investigate to which extent
these widespread features may stem from properties of human cognition. Using
these two approaches, the thesis examines three aspects of verse. The first
part deals with constituent structure in verse and how it can emerge in the
process of iterative learning. The second part measures final strictness in
several languages, and proposes that it is a consequence of reduced attention
at the beginning of lines. The last part develops a method to describe how
linguistic and musical features are aligned in songs, and how to test the
intuitions of native speakers experimentally. Although verse constitutes a
prototypically creative activity subject to extensive cultural variability, it
is nonetheless bound and shaped by our cognitive system.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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