Gary D. Prideaux

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gary D. Prideaux is involved.

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Strategies and Structures: The processing of relative clauses

Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker

In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.

Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications

Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker

Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.

Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics: Papers from the University of Alberta Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Edmonton, 1–14 Oct. 1978

Edited by Gary D. Prideaux

Over the past few years interest and research in experimental linguistics has shifted more toward centre stage, perhaps because of the growing recognition that purely theoretical formulations and speculations about language must necessarily be tested against the empirical facts of language… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 10] 1979. xi, 176 pp.

Prideaux, Gary D. 2022 Psycholinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1136–1146 | Chapter

Prideaux, Gary D. 1999 25. ‘God’s Truth’ and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 67–80 | Article

Prideaux, Gary D. 1995 Psycholinguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 435–443 | Article

Prideaux, Gary D. 1993 Subordination and information distribution in oral and written narratives Pragmatics & Cognition 1:1, pp. 51–69 | Article

The ways in which given and new information are distributed, and the functions associated with the distribution, are examined here in terms of information content of relative and adverbial clauses in oral and written narratives. The conventional view that subordinate clauses tend to code given… read more

Prideaux, Gary D. 1987 Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism? Functionalism in Linguistics, Dirven, René † and Vilém Fried (eds.), pp. 297–310 | Article

Prideaux, Gary D. 1985 Positional tendencies of engllish ralative clauses as evidence for processing strategies Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 305–314 | Article

Baker, Will and Gary D. Prideaux 1980 3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency? Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 157–173 | Article

Differences between formal constraints on a generative grammar and concepts of efficiency in transforming sentences provide different expectations regarding performance measures if the grammar is taken as a psychologically "real" model. To contrast these views, subjects were given sentences varying… read more

Baker, Will, Gary D. Prideaux and B.L. Derwig 1980 1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 121–140 | Article

A concept-formation study was run using sets of sentences in eight different syntactic patterns as target categories. These were based on all possible combinations of voice (active or passive), mood (declarative or interrogative), and modality (affirmative or negative). Subjects were 32 senior high… read more

Derwig, B.L., Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker 1980 Introduction: Experimental linguistics in historical perspective. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Miscellaneous

Prideaux, Gary D. and Will Baker 1980 4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 175–183 | Article

Three sentence families were constructed and the semantic relations among themembers of each family were investigated experimentally. A scaling technique was developed to allow subjects to evaluate the degree of semantic similarity between each pair of sentences in each family. It was found that… read more

Prideaux, Gary D. and Will Baker 1980 6. The recognition of ambiguity. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 203–213 | Article

The syntactic distinction between deep and surface structure ambiguity (MacKay & Bever, 1967) is challenged on theoretical and empirical grounds. It is argued that both types of ambiguity can be resolved at the level of surface syntactic structure, contrary to the MacKay & Bever hypothesis that the… read more

Prideaux, Gary D. 1977 23. Lexical restructuring versus rule addition: a case study in dialect differentiation Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 417–428 | Chapter