Re: [Corpora-List] My semantic prosody questionnaire

From: Przemek Kaszubski (przemka@amu.edu.pl)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2005 - 23:41:52 MET

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    I'd say as much as semantic prosody relates to (typical) (expressive)
    connotation. A good treatment of the connotation-prosody relationships
    is in chapter 4 of Partington's Patterns and Meanings (1998), which I
    would recommend to Irena if she hasn't seen it. On the other hand, I
    believe marrying corpus and elicitation/questionnaire data is
    methodologically a sound idea (cf. Prof. Grenbaum's studies on adverbial
    usage etc), though one surely needs to be very careful with the design
    and hypotheses.

    Przemek Kaszubski

    Smith Simon wrote:

    >I must be missing something...
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    >You're just asking your informants to evaluate the utterances written down,
    >aren't you? The choice of words? What's it got to do with prosody?
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