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Information structure in linguistic theory and in speech production : validation of a cross-linguistic data set
(2007)
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Sam Hellmuth
Stavros Skopeteas
- The aim of this paper is to validate a dataset collected by means of production experiments which are part of the Questionnaire on Information Structure. The experiments generate a range of information structure contexts that have been observed in the literature to induce specific constructions. This paper compares the speech production results from a subset of these experiments with specific claims about the reflexes of information structure in four different languages. The results allow us to evaluate and in most cases validate the efficacy of our elicitation paradigms, to identify potentially fruitful avenues of future research, and to highlight issues involved in interpreting speech production data of this kind.
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Information structure
(2007)
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Michael Götze
Thomas Weskott
Cornelia Endriss
Ines Fiedler
Stefan Hinterwimmer
Svetlana Petrova
Anne Schwarz
Stavros Skopeteas
Ruben Stoel
- The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed.
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Introduction
(2007)
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Stefanie Dipper
Michael Götze
Stavros Skopeteas
- The annotation guidelines introduced in this chapter present an attempt to create a unique infrastructure for the encoding of data from very different languages. The ultimate target of these annotations is to allow for data retrieval for the study of information structure, and since information structure interacts with all levels of grammar, the present guidelines cover all levels of grammar too. After introducing the guidelines, the current chapter also presents an evaluation by means of measurements of the inter-annotator agreement.
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Morphology
(2007)
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Joanna Blaszczak
Stefanie Dipper
Gisbert Fanselow
Shinishiro Ishihara
Svetlana Petrova
Stavros Skopeteas
Thomas Weskott
Malte Zimmermann
- The guidelines for morphological annotation contain the layers that are necessary for understanding the structure of the words in the object language: morphological segmentation, glossing, and annotation of part-of-speech.
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Semantics
(2007)
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Cornelia Endriss
Stefan Hinterwimmer
Stavros Skopeteas
- The guidelines for semantics comprise a number of layers related to quantificational structures as well as some crucial semantic properties of NPs with respect to information structure: definiteness, countability, and animacy.
