LINGUIST List 4.530

Wed 07 Jul 1993

Qs: Turn-taking, Stress, Instruction, Coordinate

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1. Leland McCleary, Turn-taking
2. "elaine crowder", freq of ult/pen/ant Eng verb stress
3. William Tishey, cai with databases
4. Steven Schaufele, Coordinate-Structure Constraint

In a study of non-linear, multi-track conversations, I have
begun to wonder what the psycholinguistic and cognitive
underpinnings of turn-taking are. It seems to me that
keeping a conversation linear and uni-track through turn-
taking mechanisms can not be justified purely on the basis
of information process overload.

Does anyone know of studies which show what kinds of limits
are imposed by short-term memory capacity on processing
incoming speech and/or on listening and speaking at the same
time. Also of interest would be studies that deal with
multi-task information processing, such as listening and
reading at the same time, or talking and reading.

Any suggestions on other lists that might be appropriate
targets for this query?

Please send replies to me personally at the following address,
as I will be traveling and must set LINGUISTICS to NOMAIL.
If anything turns up I will summarize for the list.

Leland McCleary
Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)
mcclearycat.cce.usp.br

Does anyone know of references that report the frequency of ultimate,
penultimate, and antepenultimate stress in English verbs? I would be
interested in data regarding how frequently each form occurs in speech,
as well. Thankyou for your time.

Regards,

Elaine Crowder
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-Elaine

Does anyone know of literature or works in progress which deal with
interactive instruction geared to language-oriented databases? I
have been developing a dBase database of colloquial/stylistic Russian
over the past few years (about 23,000 records so far) which a
colleague of mine is thinking of using for doctoral work in this area.
The idea is to develop lesson formats which give the student certain
tasks but free reign of the database to derive paradigms of word-
formation and other patterns from material in the database. The goal
would probably be to determine what lesson formats are most effective
in making best use of the database. I have written a comprehensive
reference text on Colloquial Russian which can be used as a guide to
develop the tasks. Thanks for any responses (either here or email).
I can post a summary if desired. -Bill Tishey

I'm wondering if any work has been done on explaining the
Coordinate-Structure Constraint since David Pesetsky's 1982 dissertation.
If anybody knows of any further research on the subject, please e-mail me
the citations and i'll summarize for the net.
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Dr. Steven Schaufele c/o Department of Linguistics
712 West Washington University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801 4088 Foreign Languages Building
 707 South Mathews Street
217-344-8240 Urbana, IL 61801
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