Perceptual Linguistic Salience: Modeling Causes and Consequences

• Main Author: Alice Blumenthal-Drame (auth)
• Other Authors: Adriana Hanulikova (auth), Bernd Kortmann (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; salience; Language variation and change; language learning; surprisal; morphology; prediction; Dialects; social markers
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the notion of salience in linguistics and related disciplines. While in top-down salience, perceivers endogenously direct their attention to a certain stimulus, in the bottom-up salience, it is the stimulus itself which attracts attention. In prototyp...