10.347, Qs: Final lengthening, Psycholinguistic tests

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Subject: 10.347, Qs: Final lengthening, Psycholinguistic tests

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Date:  Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:30:34 GMT
From:  Alice Turk <turk at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  Final lengthening in the world's languages

2)
Date:  Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:52:33 +0000
From:  "Tatjana Zybatov" <zybatov at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject:  Adverbial modification of accomplishments

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Date:  Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:30:34 GMT
From:  Alice Turk <turk at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  Final lengthening in the world's languages

Dear Linguist List,

I am interested in information regarding phrase-final lengthening in
languages other than English.  If you know of a language which does or
does not have final lengthening (along with references, if possible),
could you please reply directly to me, and I'll summarize to the list.

Thanks much,

Alice Turk
turk at ling.ed.ac.uk


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Date:  Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:52:33 +0000
From:  "Tatjana Zybatov" <zybatov at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject:  Adverbial modification of accomplishments

Hello everyone,

I have a question concerning adverbial modification of accomplishment
verbs in German. Do you know if there are any psycholinguistical
tests (paper & pencil test or reaction time tests) for this
phenomenon. I am interested in the ambiguitiy of adverbs in sentences
like ' Sie kleidete sich elegant'. The adverb modfies either the
process or the resulting state. My hypothesis is that the default
interpretation is the modification of the result state.

It would ber very nice, if you could tell me, whether there are
such tests and where I can find them.

Thank you
Tatjana Zybatov


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Tatjana Zybatov
Universitaet Leipzig
Zentrum fuer Hoehere Studien
Augustusplatz 9
04109 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341 97 37862
mail: zybatov at rz.uni-leipzig.de

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