Alternative Sets in Language Processing

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Alternative Sets in Language Processing is written by Nicole Gotzner and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319527614 (ISBN 10) and 9783319527611 (ISBN 13).

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of alternatives. In a series of language comprehension experiments, the author shows that intonational focus and focus particles such as ‘only’ shape the representation of alternatives in a listener’s mind in a fundamental way. This book is relevant to researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, language processing and memory.