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The Dynamics of Focus Structure

The Dynamics of Focus Structure

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 84

Linguistics

ISBN10: 052102417X
ISBN13: 9780521024174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 13 2006
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
All modes of perception (vision, hearing, etc.) are organized into foreground or focus and background constituents. Natural language sentences are no different. This book explores the role of focusing in natural language sentences and the role of this basic cognitive mechanism in explaining sentence stress, meaning and structure. The result is an innovative view of our linguistic competence.

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