LINGUIST List 10.347

Fri Mar 5 1999

Qs: Final lengthening, Psycholinguistic tests

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  • Alice Turk, Final lengthening in the world's languages
  • Tatjana Zybatov, Adverbial modification of accomplishments

    Message 1: Final lengthening in the world's languages

     Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:30:34 GMT
    From: Alice Turk <turkling.ed.ac.uk>
    Subject: Final lengthening in the world's languages


    Dear Linguist List,

    I am interested in information regarding phrase-final lengthening in languages other than English. If you know of a language which does or does not have final lengthening (along with references, if possible), could you please reply directly to me, and I'll summarize to the list.

    Thanks much,

    Alice Turk turkling.ed.ac.uk

    Message 2: Adverbial modification of accomplishments

     Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:52:33 +0000
    From: Tatjana Zybatov <zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de>
    Subject: Adverbial modification of accomplishments


    Hello everyone,

    I have a question concerning adverbial modification of accomplishment verbs in German. Do you know if there are any psycholinguistical tests (paper & pencil test or reaction time tests) for this phenomenon. I am interested in the ambiguitiy of adverbs in sentences like ' Sie kleidete sich elegant'. The adverb modfies either the process or the resulting state. My hypothesis is that the default interpretation is the modification of the result state.

    It would ber very nice, if you could tell me, whether there are such tests and where I can find them.

    Thank you Tatjana Zybatov

    - ------------------------------------------------- Tatjana Zybatov Universitaet Leipzig Zentrum fuer Hoehere Studien Augustusplatz 9 04109 Leipzig Tel.: 0341 97 37862 mail: zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de