Gradience in grammar : generative perspectives / edited by Gisbert Fanselow [and others]

This title represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar - the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Fanselow, Gisbert (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gradience in grammar / Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Ralf Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky
  • Is there gradient phonology?/ Abigail C. Cohn
  • Gradedness : interpretive dependencies and beyond / Eric Reuland
  • Linguistic and metalinguistic tasks in phonology : methods and findings / Stefan A. Frisch and Adrienne Stearns
  • Intermediate syntactic variants in a dialect : standard speech repertoire and relative acceptability / Leonie Cornips
  • Gradedness and optionality in mature and developing grammars / Antonella Sorace
  • Decomposing gradience : quantitative versus qualitative distinctions / Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel, and Brian McElree
  • Gradient perception of intonation / Caroline Féry and Ruben Stoel
  • Prototypicality judgements as inverted perception / Paul Boersma
  • Modelling productivity with the gradual learning algorithm : the problem of accidentally exceptionless generalizations / Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes
  • Gradedness as relative efficiency in the processing of syntax and semantics / John A. Hawkins
  • Probabilistic grammars as models of gradience in language processing / Matthew W. Crocker and Frank Keller
  • Degraded acceptability and markedness in syntax, and the stochastic interpretation of optimality theory / Ralf Vogel
  • Linear optimality theory as a model of gradience in grammar / Frank Keller
  • Effects of processing difficulty on judgements of acceptability / Gisbert Fanselow and Stefan Frisch
  • What's what? / Nomi Erteschik-Shir
  • Prosodic influence on syntactic judgements / Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Janet Dean Fodor.