Will Baker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Will Baker is involved.

Titles

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.

Baker, Will 2016 Identity and interculturality through English as a lingua franca Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity, Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew (ed.), pp. 340–347 | Article

Baker, Will 1980 Epilogue: An "information structure" view of language. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 293–307 | Miscellaneous

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. and Will Baker 1980 9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural). Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 247–272 | Article

This paper reports a brief summary of the results of an extensive investigation of five common English inflections, utilizing a methodology largely borrowed from Jean Berko. A total of 112 subjects were tested, ranging in age from 3 through 9 years, using a fully representative set of real (both… 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

Marckworth, Mary Lois and Will Baker 1980 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 231–246 | Article

This paper approaches the question of whether the styles of different prose genres (here referring to classifications such as fiction, newspaper reportage, learned journals, etc.) are partially characterized by differences in the co-variation of a number of common syntactic structures.Thirty-six… 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. 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

Baker, Will 1979 On draining the conceptual swamp: An epilogue Perspectives in Experimental Linguistics: Papers from the University of Alberta Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Edmonton, 1–14 Oct. 1978, Prideaux, Gary D. (ed.), pp. 141–149 | Article