Overview
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.
- | Author: Nomi Erteschik-Shir
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 13, 1998
- | Number of Pages: 296 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521592178
- | ISBN-13: 9780521592178
