Toward an adequate characterization of relative clause extraposition in modern German

Shannon, Thomas F.

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“…The conditions governing relative clause extraposition have been studied both by means of corpus analysis (Hawkins 1994;Shannon 1992;Uszkoreit et al 1998) and by experimental means (Konieczny 2000). The syntactic position of extraposed relative clauses is controversial, but since this issue is not crucial for the upcoming discussion it will not be discussed further here.…”

Section: Extraposed Relative Clausesmentioning

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“…The experimental effects observed in this chapter are thus independent of weight. Because the experimental manipulations varied whether the subject NP, which hosted the relative clause, was focused or not, the experimental results can be taken as evidence in favor of Shannon's (1992) information structural account of extraposition. As predicted by this account, extraposition from the subject across an intervening object was easier to process when the subject was explicitly marked as a focus.…”

Section: Implicit Prosody and Relative Clause Extrapositionmentioning

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“…There are good reasons, however, for assuming that an adequate theory of relative clause extraposition will subsume elements of both performance accounts and information-structural accounts, as for related structures in English. On the one hand, a theory like that of Shannon (1992) does not capture the finding that the probability of extraposition declines in a gradient fashion with increasing length of the intervening material. Shannon's theory also gives no account of the finding that the probability of extraposition increases with increasing length of the relative clause.…”

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“…An information-structural account was proposed by Shannon (1992). According to Shannon, relative clauses that modify a topic stay adjacent to their head noun whereas relative clauses that modify a focus are extraposed.…”

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How Prosody Constrains First-Pass Parsing During Reading

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2015

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

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This chapter reviews several experiments (originally presented at CUNY Conferences on Sentence Processing) that have investigated the role of implicit prosody for syntactic ambiguity resolution. The subject of these experiments is the syntactic ambiguity that arises when a matrix clause in German contains two potential antecedent NPs for an extraposed relative clause. In such cases, the second NP is the preferred construal site for the relative clause, probably for reasons of recency. Experimental evidence shows that the first NP becomes more easily accessible as a construal site if readers are given a reason to stress the first NP. The results of these experiments indicate that stress assignment during reading can affect the syntactic structure chosen during first-pass parsing. The chapter explores this finding in the wider context of effects of implicit prosody on first and second pass parsing.

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Section: Extraposed Relative Clausesmentioning

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How Prosody Constrains First-Pass Parsing During Reading

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2015

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“…to describe an event not äs a part of the preceding sentential conceptualization, but already äs something following it (Daalder 1989: 203). In German and Dutch, exhibiting SOV word order in certain contexts, such continuative relative clauses are (in the relevant contexts) separated from their antecedents by a verb, so that they are called "extraposed"; (29) and (30) are examples of this kind, taken from Shannon (1992). (29) However, more extraposed relative clauses in such contexts are in fact restrictive, rather than continuative, which is not what one might expect at first sight.…”

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