Head (linguistics)

About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.

Characteristics of Syntactic Comprehension Deficits Following Closed Head Injury Versus Left Cerebrovascular Accident

Abstract: Two studies examined the ability to assign thematic roles and to coindex referentially dependent noun phrases in closed head injured adults, adult stroke patients, and normal adults. The subjects’ ...

The emotional and communicative significance of head nods

Abstract: Head nods and shakes have been extracted from the SAL audiovisual database of spontaneous emotionally coloured dialogue. The dataset contains 154 nods and 104 shakes. Two trained observers rated them on multiple dimensions derived from linguistics on one hand, and the psychology of emotion on the other. One used audiovisual presentation, the other visual only. There was agreement on affective, but not linguistic significance – suggesting that the latter depends on speech context rather than the manner of movement per se. A few seem to form discrete types, but for the most part classical dimensional models of emotion captured the affective variation well.

Doubly-filled comp, wh head movement, and derivational economy

Abstract: In other words, it will be argued that it makes a difference whether a wh-word or a wh-phrase undergoes movement, and that the former case may be analyzed as head-movement. In this case the wh-element is simultaneously a complementizer. As a consequence, merger of a separate complementizer is superfluous and therefore forbidden. The article is organized as follows: After presentation of the core data in 2., it will be shown in 3.