Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to.
The book series "Language, Context and Cognition" explores the essential properties of natural languages in focusing on their lexical entries, on the interaction of their grammatical subsystems as well as on the text production methods, from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints.
Research on the conceptual underspecification of language requires close cooperation of linguists with researchers in cognitive and neuroscience, with phoneticians, logicians and with the experts of pragmatic and experimental disciplines, but it also needs interdisciplinary cooperation with students of non-linguistic conceptual systems.
Editorial board (vol. 10 onwards)
Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School)
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universitat des Saarlandes)
Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Luhr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universitat Leipzig)
Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese (Universitat Marburg)
Synopsis
The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception tell us about prosody, particularly about the constituting elements of intonation and rhythm? The papers of the volume address questions like these with a special focus on how the notion of context-based coding, the knowledge of prosodic functions and the communicative embedding of prosodic elements can advance our understanding of prosody.
Synopsis
Die Sprachkenntnis ist ein beraus konomisches Wissenssystem, das zur Interpretation der u erungen in der Regel nur beizusteuern braucht, was nicht durch die brigen konzeptuellen Systeme geliefert wird. Daher sind grammatische Unterspezifikation und Kontextabh ngigkeit nach Sprachtyp und Einzelsprache verschieden ausgepr gt, substantielle sprachliche Eigenschaften.
Die Reihe Language, Context and Cognition untersucht diese Eigenschaften nat rlicher Sprachen in deren Lexikon, in der Interaktion ihrer grammatischen Subsysteme und in den Textbildungsverfahren in der Gegenwart wie auch in historischen Wandelprozessen.
Kontextabh ngigkeit setzt Kooperation von Sprachwissenschaftlern mit den Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, mit der Phonetik, der mathematischen Logik sowie den pragmatischen und experimentell orientierten Disziplinen voraus, aber ebenso Zusammenarbeit mit Wissenschaftlern, die andere konzeptuelle Systeme erforschen oder Modellierungsm glichkeiten f r Ergebnisse aus unterschiedlichen Wissensbest nden erkunden.
Editorial board:
Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University und Oxford University),
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universit t Potsdam),
Prof. Dr. Ljudmila Geist (Universit t Stuttgart),
Prof. Dr. Rosemarie L hr (Humboldt Universit t Berlin),
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universit t Leipzig),
Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese (Universit t Marburg)