{"title":"The Syntax–Prosody Interface","authors":"Ryan Bennett, E. Elfner","doi":"10.1146/ANNUREV-LINGUISTICS-011718-012503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/ANNUREV-LINGUISTICS-011718-012503","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an overview of current and historically important issues in the study of the syntax–prosody interface, the point of interaction between syntactic structure and phrase-level phonology. We take a broad view of the syntax–prosody interface, surveying both direct and indirect reference theories, with a focus on evaluating the continuing prominent role of prosodic hierarchy theory in shaping our understanding of this area of linguistics. Specific topics discussed in detail include the identification of prosodic domains, the universality of prosodic categories, the recent resurgence of interest in the role of recursion in prosodic structure, crosslinguistic variation in syntax–prosody mapping, prosodic influences on syntax and word order, and the influence of sentence processing in the planning and shaping of prosodic domains. We consider criticisms of prosodic hierarchy theory in particular, and provide an assessment of the future of prosodic hierarchy theory in research on the syntax–prosody interface.","PeriodicalId":45803,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Linguistics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91189205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of LinguisticsPub Date : 2019-01-01Epub Date: 2018-08-01DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012353
Megan Keough, Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick
{"title":"Cross-modal effects in speech perception.","authors":"Megan Keough, Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick","doi":"10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech research during recent years has moved progressively away from its traditional focus on audition toward a more multisensory approach. In addition to audition and vision, many somatosenses including proprioception, pressure, vibration and aerotactile sensation are all highly relevant modalities for experiencing and/or conveying speech. In this article, we review both long-standing cross-modal effects stemming from decades of audiovisual speech research as well as new findings related to somatosensory effects. Cross-modal effects in speech perception to date are found to be constrained by temporal congruence and signal relevance, but appear to be unconstrained by spatial congruence. Far from taking place in a one-, two- or even three-dimensional space, the literature reveals that speech occupies a highly multidimensional sensory space. We argue that future research in cross-modal effects should expand to consider each of these modalities both separately and in combination with other modalities in speech.</p>","PeriodicalId":45803,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Linguistics","volume":"5 1","pages":"49-66"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39220682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of LinguisticsPub Date : 2018-01-01Epub Date: 2017-10-20DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-034253
Murray Grossman
{"title":"Linguistic Aspects of Primary Progressive Aphasia.","authors":"Murray Grossman","doi":"10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-034253","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-034253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) refers to a disorder of declining language associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal degeneration and Alzheimer disease. Variants of PPA are important to recognize from a medical perspective because these syndromes are clinical markers suggesting specific underlying pathology. In this review, I discuss linguistic aspects of PPA syndromes that may prove informative for parsing our language mechanism and identifying the neural representation of fundamental elements of language. I focus on the representation of word meaning in a discussion of semantic variant PPA, grammatical comprehension and expression in a discussion of nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA, the supporting role of short-term memory in a discussion of logopenic variant PPA, and components of language associated with discourse in a discussion of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. PPA provides a novel perspective that uniquely addresses facets of language and its disorders while complementing traditional aphasia syndromes that follow stroke.</p>","PeriodicalId":45803,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Linguistics","volume":"4 ","pages":"377-403"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089544/pdf/nihms983902.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36401568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Emergence.","authors":"Diane Brentari, Susan Goldin-Meadow","doi":"10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040743","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Language emergence describes moments in historical time when nonlinguistic systems become linguistic. Because language can be invented de novo in the manual modality, this offers insight into the emergence of language in ways that the oral modality cannot. Here we focus on homesign, gestures developed by deaf individuals who cannot acquire spoken language and have not been exposed to sign language. We contrast homesign with (<i>a</i>) gestures that hearing individuals produce when they speak, as these cospeech gestures are a potential source of input to homesigners, and (<i>b</i>) established sign languages, as these codified systems display the linguistic structure that homesign has the potential to assume. We find that the manual modality takes on linguistic properties, even in the hands of a child not exposed to a language model. But it grows into full-blown language only with the support of a community that transmits the system to the next generation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45803,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Linguistics","volume":"3 ","pages":"363-388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638453/pdf/nihms908254.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35609713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of LinguisticsPub Date : 2015-01-01Epub Date: 2014-08-13DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124937
Judith F Kroll, Paola E Dussias, Kinsey Bice, Lauren Perrotti
{"title":"Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain.","authors":"Judith F Kroll, Paola E Dussias, Kinsey Bice, Lauren Perrotti","doi":"10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124937","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition, and the brain. The past 20 years have witnessed an upsurge of research on bilingualism to examine language acquisition and processing, their cognitive and neural bases, and the consequences that bilingualism holds for cognition and the brain over the life span. Contrary to the view that bilingualism complicates the language system, this new research demonstrates that all of the languages that are known and used become part of the same language system. The interactions that arise when two languages are in play have consequences for the mind and the brain and, indeed, for language processing itself, but those consequences are not additive. Thus, bilingualism helps reveal the fundamental architecture and mechanisms of language processing that are otherwise hidden in monolingual speakers.</p>","PeriodicalId":45803,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Linguistics","volume":"1 ","pages":"377-394"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478196/pdf/nihms834178.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35112843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}