In:Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker
[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series 3] 1980
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 1 January 1980
https://doi.org/10.1075/ssls.3.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: Experimental linguistics in historical perspective.
PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction)
1. On paraphrase.
2. What is structural ambiguity?
3. On theories of focus.
4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language.
5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation.
PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction)
1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation.
2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task.
3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency?
4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness.
5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences.
6. The recognition of ambiguity.
7. An experimental investigation of focus.
8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres.
9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural).
10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition.
Epilogue: An "information structure" view of language.
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