The Modern Russian Sentence Intonation as a Linguistic Structure

Sentence Processing and Linguistic Structure

Intonation and sentence processing

This paper summarises recent research concerning the relationship between intonation and the syntactic analysis of sentences. After introductory comments on the nature of intonation, we discuss methodological problems in determining the relationship between syntactic and intonational structure, and the potential dangers of basing claims about this relationship on scripted readings rather than o...

Prototypicality in a Linguistic Context: Effects on Sentence Structure

Three studies explored relationships between prototypicahty and the structure of sentences in recall, preference ratings, and natural dictionary definitions. The first experiment showed that sentences were systematically changed in retail to allow prototypical instances of categories to be mentioned before nonprototypical instances. In the second experiment, sentences in which the prototype pre...

Linguistic Facts as Predicates over Ranges of the Sentence

This paper introduces a novel approach to language processing, in which linguistic facts are represented as predicates over ranges of the intput text, usually, but not limited to, ranges of the current sentence. Such an approch allows to build non-linear analyses with a polynomial parsing complexity that take into account simultaneously and with the same technical status morphological, syntacti...

Sentence and text comprehension: roles of linguistic structure.

Readers and listeners use linguistic structure in comprehending sentences and texts. We review research, mostly published in the past five years, that addresses the question of how they use it. We consider effects of syntactic, lexical, prosodic, morphological, semantic, and discourse structure, as well as reviewing research on how discourse context and frequency of experience, the contents of ...