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Stress in ASL: Empirical Evidence and Linguistic Issues.

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Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Language and Speech, 1999

Focuses on phrasal prominence in American Sign Language (ASL). Reviews the marking of stress and phrase boundaries in ASL, and discusses prominence assignment at the phrasal level, with brief mention of lexical stress. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: American Sign Language, Grammar, Phrase Structure, Stress (Phonology)

Effects of Antecedent Distance and Intervening Text Structure in the Interpretation of Ellipses.

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Garnham, A. – Language and Speech, 1987

Investigates the availability of surface representations for the interpretation of verb-phrase ellipsis. Results show that an elliptical verb phrase is most easily interpreted if its antecedent is in the immediately preceding sentence and that this can not be explained in terms of the unnaturalness of the passages with distant antecedents. (MM)

Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research