Language & Linguistics Compass

Villarreal, Dan; Rechsteiner, Jack; Johnstone, Barbara; Kiesling, Scott

doi: 10.1111/lnc3.70038pmid: N/A

The troves of speech data that have driven an increasing orientation towards large‐scale methods in linguistics have been, for the most part, available only to closed teams of researchers and their collaborators. The Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech (APLS, https://apls.pitt.edu) is a new open data resource, consisting of nearly 46 h of audio from sociolinguistic interviews with 40 speakers of Pittsburgh English. Powered by the corpus management software LaBB‐CAT, APLS interviews are richly annotated with multiple layers of linguistic information at the phrase, word, and segment level. Thanks to APLS's graphical user interface, users can access powerful tools for searching the corpus and extracting acoustic measurements with relatively few technical barriers to entry. We describe how APLS fits into the current landscape of (socio)linguistic open data, exemplify APLS's capabilities via a case study of 7137 /aʊ/ tokens, and contextualise the data both in terms of how fieldwork was carried out and Pittsburgh in the early 2000s.

doi: 10.1111/lnc3.70039pmid: N/A

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Schlotterbeck, Fabian; Bott, Oliver

doi: 10.1111/lnc3.70040pmid: N/A

Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context. The present article highlights the importance of the semantic notion of scope for the interpretation of operators of various sorts. We review a number of non‐incremental effects from previous literature and hypothesize that they can be better understood if we consider the processing domains in terms of scope that may be underlying their interpretation. To do so, we propose a novel account, the Scope‐Domain Account, mediating between immediate specification and local underspecification. We apply this account to findings from the literature contrasting incremental and non‐incremental effects observed for negation and quantifiers but also apply it to phenomena that have only rarely been connected to scope processing so far.