Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Language, Context and Cognition explores conceptual underspecification and context-dependence in grammar and text-production as essential properties of natural languages. This requires close cooperation of linguistics with cognitive science, logic andpragmatics.
Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to.
The book series Language, Context and Cognition explores the essential properties of natural languages in focusing on their lexical entries, on the interaction of their grammatical subsystems as well as on the text production methods, from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints.
Research on the conceptual underspecification of language requires close cooperation of linguists with researchers in cognitive and neuroscience, with phoneticians, logicians and with the experts of pragmatic and experimental disciplines, but it also needs interdisciplinary cooperation with experts of non-linguistic conceptual systems.
Editorial board:
Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University und Oxford University),
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität Potsdam),
Prof. Dr. Ljudmila Geist (Universität Stuttgart),
Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Humboldt Universität Berlin),
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig),
Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese (Universität Marburg)
Oliver Niebuhr
Intonation (Sprache) Sprachwahrnehmung Sprechmelodie Phonetik Phonologie Speech melody phonetics intonation (language)
"Oliver Niebuhrs Studie stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Modell der intonatorischen Wahrnehmung dar [...] Damit ist die Arbeit nicht nur für Phonologen und Phonetiker, sondern auch aus kognitionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive von Bedeutung."Stefan Baumann in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 3/2010
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