Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction)
5. 1. On paraphrase. 21
6. 2. What is structural ambiguity? 35
7. 3. On theories of focus. 55
8. 4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language. 65
9. 5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation. 81
10. PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction)
11. 1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation. 121
12. 2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task. 141
13. 3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency? 157
14. 4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness. 175
15. 5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences. 185
16. 6. The recognition of ambiguity. 203
17. 7. An experimental investigation of focus. 215
18. 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. 231
19. 9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural). 247
20. 10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition. 273
21. Epilogue 293
22. Bibliography 309