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" The processing of tense : "
by Michael Walsh Dickey.
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BL
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774229
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b594223
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by Michael Walsh Dickey.
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The processing of tense : : psycholinguistic studies on the interpretation of tense and temporal relations\ by Michael Walsh Dickey.
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Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [, 2001] ©2001
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Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics, volume 28.
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(xiii, pages 310)
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9401005680
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: 9789401005685
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000.
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| Contents
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1: Introduction --; 2: Interpreting AspectP --; 3: Interpreting TenseP --; 4: Sequence of Tense and Simplicity --; 5: Conclusions and Remaining Questions --; Appendices --; Appendix A: Materials for Study 1, Preposing and Aspect Interpretation --; Appendix B: Materials for Study 2, Preposing and Aspect Interpretation Redux --; Appendix C: Materials for Study 3, Temporal Context Clash --; Appendix D: Materials for Study 4, Minimal Events and TP Interpretation --; Appendix E: Materials for Study 5, Sot Pilot Questionnaire --; Appendix F: Materials for Study 6, Sot Questionnaire: Adverb Effects --; Appendix G: Materials for Study 7, Sot On-Line --; References.
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This book presents an in-depth study of the processing of tense, more specifically the English past tense. Against a detailed theoretical background, it presents a number of psycholinguistic studies examining how and when the language processor assigns an interpretation to tense morphology. In doing so, it looks at several specific topics: temporal anaphora resolution, adverb preposing and discourse relations, and the sequence-of-tense ambiguity. The picture which emerges is one in which the processor is not guided by preceding context in making interpretive decisions regarding tense, as previous work has suggested. Rather, sentence-level linguistic structure appears to cue the processor in deciding which of multiple possible interpretations to assign to a past-tense marker. The book also offers novel theoretical perspectives on issues of both linguistic (temporal adverbs, sentence- and discourse-level temporal interpretation) and psycholinguistic (models of semantic processing) interest. "This work will be of interest to graduate students and research in linguistics and psycholinguistics working on semantic processing, temporal interpretation, and discourse processing."--Jacket.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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Psycholinguistics.
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P281.B965 9999
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Michael Walsh Dickey
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