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Tian, Ye; Maruyama, Takehiko; Ginzburg, Jonathan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
There is an ongoing debate whether phenomena of disfluency (such as filled pauses) are produced communicatively. Clark and Fox Tree ("Cognition" 84(1):73-111, 2002) propose that filled pauses are words, and that different forms signal different lengths of delay. This paper evaluates this Filler-As-Words hypothesis by analyzing the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Memory, English
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Kuno, Susumu; Takami, Ken-ichi; Wu, Yuru – Language, 1999
Critiques Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier-scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, showing serious theoretical problems with their results and proposing a quantifier-scope analysis that avoids those problems. The proposed expert system considers several important considerations and arrives at a composite…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Grammar, Japanese