Grammatik und Sprachwirklichkeit von 1640-1700

Takada, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1515/9783110952223

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“…For the early New High German period, research, especially on RC extraposition, is rare. The sentence frame, finally established in the eighteenth century (Admoni, 1990;Konopka, 1996;Takada, 1998), can already be found in Old High German (OHG) but it was not as necessary as it is today and has begun to be in the eighteenth century. The material was more often placed on the borders of the clause and for various reasons (Paul, 2007).…”

Section: Relative Clausesmentioning

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“…(A. to shape the information perspective, B. to ensure text connectivity, C. to relieve strain on the sentence frame). Scholars from the seventeenth century agree with the latter: Though the sentence frame should be kept, the placement of clauses behind the RSB can ensure better processing of information [e.g., Schottelius (1641) in Takada (1998)].…”

Section: Relative Clausesmentioning

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Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses

Voigtmann

Speyer

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This paper aims to find a correlation between Information Density (ID) and extraposition of Relative Clauses (RC) in Early New High German. Since surprisal is connected to perceiving difficulties, the impact on the working memory is lower for frequent combinations with low surprisal-values than it is for rare combinations with higher surprisal-values. To improve text comprehension, producers therefore distribute information as evenly as possible across a discourse. Extraposed RC are expected to have a higher surprisal-value than embedded RC. We intend to find evidence for this idea in RC taken from scientific texts from the 17th to 19th century. We built a corpus of tokenized, lemmatized and normalized papers about medicine from the 17th and 19th century, manually determined the RC-variants and calculated a skipgram-Language Model to compute the 2-Skip-bigram surprisal of every word of the relevant sentences. A logistic regression over the summed up surprisal values shows a significant result, which indicates a correlation between surprisal values and extraposition. So, for these periods it can be said that RC are more likely to be extraposed when they have a high total surprisal value. The influence of surprisal values also seems to be stable across time. The comparison of the analyzed language periods shows no significant change.

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Section: Relative Clausesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Relative Clausesmentioning

confidence: 99%