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Unter medizinischer Kommunikation werden verschiedene Kommunikationstypen zusammengefasst: Dazu gehören zum einen Gespräche von Medizinern mit Krankenkassen und Verwaltungen, zum anderen öffentliche Diskurse zu Gesundheit und Krankheit. Die linguistische Forschung hat sich zunächst mit der medizinischen Fachsprache, wie z. B. der Verständlichkeit von Beipackzetteln, beschäftigt. Seit den 1970er Jahren steht das Gespräch zwischen Arzt und Patient im Vordergrund (z. B. Brünner 2005). Gisela Brünner betritt mit ihrem umfassenden Buch Gesundheit durchs Fernsehen vor diesem Hintergrund Neuland. Es bietet einen innovativen Einblick in die Vermittlung medizinischer Informationen und gesundheitlichen Rats in Gesundheitssendungen. Brünners Untersuchungen zeigen, wie die Experten-Laien-Kommunikation abläuft und welche Strategien zur Erklärung und Veranschaulichung verwendet werden. Die Monographie kann somit an der Schnittstelle von Experten-Laien-Kommunikation und linguistischer Medienanalyse eingeordnet werden. ...
Reduction and deletion processes occur regularly in conversational speech. A segment that is affected by such reduction and deletion processes in many Germanic languages (e.g., Dutch, English, German) is /t/. There are similarities concerning the factors that influence the likelihood of final /t/ to get deleted, such as segmental context. However, speakers of different languages differ with respect to the acoustic cues they leave in the speech signal when they delete final /t/. German speakers usually lengthen a preceding /s/ when they delete final /t/. This article investigates to what extent German listeners are able to reconstruct /t/ when they are presented with fragments of words where final /t/ has been deleted. It aims also at investigating whether the strategies that are used by German depend on the length of /s/, and therefore whether listeners are using language-specific cues. Results of a forced-choice segment detection task suggest that listeners are able to reconstruct deleted final /t/ in about 45% of the times. The length of /s/ plays some role in the reconstruction, however, it does not explain the behavior of German listeners completely.
The aim of the present paper is to show how, and to what extent, the standards of critical genetic editions as applied to Goethe's Faust can be attained within a TEI framework. It proposes and argues for the introduction of two separate transcripts: documentary and textual. Despite the apparent disadvantages of multiple encoding, this approach recommends itself for practical reasons (e.g., avoidance of overlapping hierarchies), and it conveniently reflects the idea that any written document must be considered a material object on the one hand and a medium of textual transmission on the other. In the course of the paper, some aspects and problems of chapter 11 of version 2.0.0 of TEI P5 (the definition and use of the elements <line> and <mod> and related issues) will be discussed.
Reduction in natural speech
(2009)
Natural (conversational) speech, compared to cannonical speech, is earmarked by the tremendous amount of variation that often leads to a massive change in pronunciation. Despite many attempts to explain and theorize the variability in conversational speech, its unique characteristics have not played a significant role in linguistic modeling. One of the reasons for variation in natural speech lies in a tendency of speakers to reduce speech, which may drastically alter the phonetic shape of words. Despite the massive loss of information due to reduction, listeners are often able to understand conversational speech even in the presence of background noise. This dissertation investigates two reduction processes, namely regressive place assimilation across word boundaries, and massive reduction and provides novel data from the analyses of speech corpora combined with experimental results from perception studies to reach a better understanding of how humans handle natural speech. The successes and failures of two models dealing with data from natural speech are presented: The FUL-model (Featurally Underspecified Lexicon, Lahiri & Reetz, 2002), and X-MOD (an episodic model, Johnson, 1997). Based on different assumptions, both models make different predictions for the two types of reduction processes under investigation. This dissertation explores the nature and dynamics of these processes in speech production and discusses its consequences for speech perception. More specifically, data from analyses of running speech are presented investigating the amount of reduction that occurs in naturally spoken German. Concerning production, the corpus analysis of regressive place assimilation reveals that it is not an obligatory process. At the same time, there emerges a clear asymmetry: With only very few exceptions, only [coronal] segments undergo assimilation, [labial] and [dorsal] segments usually do not. Furthermore, there seem to be cases of complete neutralization where the underlying Place of Articulation feature has undergone complete assimilation to the Place of Articulation feature of the upcoming segment. Phonetic analyses further underpin these findings. Concerning deletions and massive reductions, the results clearly indicate that phonological rules in the classical generative tradition are not able to explain the reduction patterns attested in conversational speech. Overall, the analyses of deletion and massive reduction in natural speech did not exhibit clear-cut patterns. For a more in-depth examination of reduction factors, the case of final /t/ deletion is examined by means of a new corpus constructed for this purpose. The analysis of this corpus indicates that although phonological context plays an important role on the deletion of segments (i.e. /t/), this arises in the form of tendencies, not absolute conditions. This is true for other deletion processes, too. Concerning speech perception, a crucial part for both models under investigation (X-MOD and FUL) is how listeners handle reduced speech. Five experiments investigate the way reduced speech is perceived by human listeners. Results from two experiments show that regressive place assimilations can be treated as instances of complete neutralizations by German listeners. Concerning massively reduced words, the outcome of transcription and priming experiments suggest that such words are not acceptable candidates of the intended lexical items for listeners in the absence of their proper phrasal context. Overall, the abstractionist FUL-model is found to be superior in explaining the data. While at first sight, X-MOD deals with the production data more readily, FUL provides a better fit for the perception results. Another important finding concerns the role of phonology and phonetics in general. The results presented in this dissertation make a strong case for models, such as FUL, where phonology and phonetics operate at different levels of the mental lexicon, rather than being integrated into one. The findings suggest that phonetic variation is not part of the representation in the mental lexicon.
Die jährlich im Vorfeld der DGfS-Tagung veranstaltete Arbeitstagung Linguistische Pragmatik fand 2012 vor besonderem Hintergrund statt: Es war zugleich die erste Jahrestagung des neu gegründeten, seit 01.01.2012 bestehenden Vereins Arbeitskreis Linguistische Pragmatik. Zu diesem Anlass haben die Organisatoren (Constanze Spieß, Elke Diedrichsen und Jörg Bücker) ein Rahmenthema gewählt, das pragmatisch orientierte Linguistinnen und Linguisten der verschiedensten Forschungsrichtungen zusammenbringt: Sprachkritik und Sprachwandel. ...
In this study, we investigated the impact of two constraints on the linear order of constituents in German preschool children’s and adults’ speech production: a rhythmic (*LAPSE, militating against sequences of unstressed syllables) and a semantic one (ANIM, requiring animate referents to be named before inanimate ones). Participants were asked to produce coordinated bare noun phrases in response to picture stimuli (e.g., Delfin und Planet, ‘dolphin and planet’) without any predefined word order. Overall, children and adults preferably produced animate items before inanimate ones, confirming findings of Prat-Sala, Shillcock, and Sorace (2000). In the group of preschoolers, the strength of the animacy effect correlated positively with age. Furthermore, the order of the conjuncts was affected by the rhythmic constraint, such that disrhythmic sequences, i.e., stress lapses, were avoided. In both groups, the latter result was significant when the two stimulus pictures did not vary with respect to animacy. In sum, our findings suggest a stronger influence of animacy compared to rhythmic well-formedness on conjunct ordering for German speaking children and adults, in line with findings by McDonald, Bock, and Kelly (1993) who investigated English speaking adults.
Terézia Mora zählt zu den renommiertesten Übersetzerinnen aus dem Ungarischen und erhielt für ihr schriftstellerisches Werk bereits zahlreiche Auszeichnungen. Ihr literarisches Debüt, der Erzählband Seltsame Materie (1999) wurde sowohl mit dem Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis (1999) als auch mit dem Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis im Jahr 2000 bedacht. Ihr Romandebüt Alle Tage (2004) wurde unter anderem mit dem Mara-Cassens-Preis ausgezeichnet. 2009 erschien der erste Teilband der angekündigten Trilogie um den Protagonisten Darius Kopp Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent. Es folgte 2013 der zweite Teil Das Ungeheuer, für welchen Terézia Mora den Deutschen Buchpreis im selben Jahr erhielt.
In ihrer Laudatio im März 2010, anlässlich der Verleihung des Adelbert-von-Chamisso Preises, bezeichnet Sigrid Löffler Terézia Mora nicht nur als herausragende Übersetzerin, sondern auch als Schriftstellerin, die ihre „Herkunftsregion literaturfähig“ gemacht habe...