130 pages / Progressive aspect has traditionally been linked to notions of speaker viewpoint on conceptual structure - specifically, whether the speaker perceives an event as bounded or unbounded. The following research examines the cognitive structures of the mental representation that might underlay these conceptual notions, recasting viewpoint in cognitive terms. A cognitive model of information processing is presented, explaining processes of information parsing, message formulation and linguistic encoding as carried out by a functional grammar. In particular, we examine how the grammar uses the habituated or dishabituated states of neural models formed from sensory or memorial inputs in determining progressive or non-progressive message encoding. Hypotheses are tested by experiments based upon a paradigm in which speakers describe visual stimuli while simultaneously watching them on a screen. This online paradigm allows us to approximate the speaker's mental representation, providing text-independent measures to compare against linguistic output.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/24567 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Hayashi, Lawrence |
| Contributors | Tomlin, Russell |
| Publisher | University of Oregon |
| Source Sets | University of Oregon |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis / Dissertation |
| Rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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