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001-es BibID:	BIBFORM011023
Első szerző:	Hunyadi László (általános, alkalmazott nyelvész)
Cím:	Grouping, the cognitive basis of recursion in language / László Hunyadi
Dátum:	2006
Megjegyzések:	Our initial task was to account for the perception that utterances of one and the same sentence by different speakers appear to have virtually identical rhythm and relative timing. Our assumption was that this virtual identity is based on some general principle or principles of grouping originating outside language. It was further assumed that temporal variation is one of the fundamental forms of grouping that can be studied in structures consisting of elements of a highly abstract nature. Experiments were carried out involving the temporal representation of abstract visual elements and the findings were mapped onto results of experiments involving abstract pitch-related prosodic objects. Finally, these results were matched against temporal data from real natural language utterances. The experiments carried out showed that temporal variation is based on at least two basic principles: inherent grouping and recursion. Different levels of embedding were found to be denoted by differences in the duration of boundaries so that embedding at a given level was found shorter than de-embedding (the return to the original level of embedding). It was also found that the most straightforward function of temporal variation is the case of abstract visual objects with no means of representing grouping other than timing. In the case of abstract pitch-related objects, timing was observed to have similar functions as found in abstract visual grouping, however, priority was given to pitch variation. In the case of real natural language utterances both temporal and pitch variation took part in the representation of grouping, however, priority was given to syntax. The issue of the relation between syntactic structure and prosody was also addressed. Further support was found for the view that the two systems are related but are not identical. Syntax only determines the skeleton of the underlying prosodic structure of an utterance which essentially corresponds to the given syntactic structure,. Further small-scale prosodic phrasing is carried out by recursive temporal and pitch-related grouping to denote additional, especially semantic and pragmatic relations. This grouping of the prosodic material is made possible by the principle of recursion that makes possible to derive smaller embedded tonal contours (IPs) from the underlying larger tonal contour. Recursion was found to be the fundamental principle that underlies abstract temporal as well as pitch-related grouping and connects them to grouping in speech prosody. Again, it is the principle of recursion that makes it possible for syntactic and prosodic structure to be directly related. Finally, on the basis of these data and considerations we can make the conclusion that recursion found in syntax is not some property that is only characteristic of language as part of human cognition, instead, it is a property which has its cognitive history in highly abstract temporal grouping in general.
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Megjelenés:	Argumentum. - 2 (2006), p. 67-114. -
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