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Studien zur performanzorientierten Linguistik

Aspekte der Relativsatzextraposition im Deutschen

Studies in Performance-Oriented Linguistics: Aspects of German Relative Clause Extraposition

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Looking at relative clause extraposition in German as a concrete example, the paper demonstrates how linguistic model building, corpus study and psycholinguistic experiments combine into an integrational research programme that aims at an improved understanding and linguistically as well as cognitively adequate modelling of human language performance. Starting from the word order theory articulated by (Hawkins, 1994), we formulate hypotheses on the positional distribution of relative clauses and evaluate them on the basis of data drawn from corpus analyses and acceptability experiments. Our empirical studies confirm the expectation that grammatical weight has a significant effect on relative clause distribution; at the same time, there is an interesting asymmetry between language production and perception data.

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Am Beispiel der Relativsatzextraposition im Deutschen zeigt der Beitrag, wie Verfahren der sprachwissenschaftlichen Modellbildung, korpuslinguistischen Untersuchung und des psycholinguistischen Experiments in einem integrativen Forschungsansatz zusammenwirken, der auf ein verbessertes Verständnis und die linguistisch wie kognitiv adäquate Modellierung sprachlicher Performanzprobleme zielt. Ausgehend von der von Hawkins (1994) formulierten Theorie zur Wortstellung werden Hypothesen über die positionelle Verteilung von Relativsätzen formuliert und in Bezug auf Korpusdaten und Akzeptabilitätsmessungen überprüft. Alle beschriebenen empirischen Untersuchungen bestätigen den erwarteten Einfluß von Längenfaktoren auf die Relativsatzdistribution, zeigen gleichzeitig aber eine interessante Asymmetrie zwischen Produktionsund Rezeptionsdaten.

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Uszkoreit, H., Brants, T., Duchier, D. et al. Studien zur performanzorientierten Linguistik. Kognit. Wiss. 7, 129–133 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001970050065

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