Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

By Katy Carlson

Book Overview

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following questions: (i) are ellipsis sentences processed using special routines employed only for ellipsis or are they processed using the same principles needed for unelided sentences? (ii) does parallelism influence sentence processing? if so, what kinds of similarities matter?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415941687
• ISBN13: 9780415941686
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"