Corpus Pragmatics and Prosody Lab
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Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
The Corpus Pragmatics and
Prosody Lab (CPP Lab) investigates relationships between particular aspects of
the syntactic, morphological and phonological form of linguistic expressions
and constructions and particular aspects of their semantic meaning, pragmatic
use, and prosodic pronunciation in extended spoken and written natural
discourse.
In short: Corpus-based study of Information Structure in extended
natural discourse.
Expression types currently under study include: clefts, pseudoclefts, reverse pseudoclefts, simple copula constructions; question intonation, question-response pairing, linguistic realization of other speech acts; global discourse structure, oral paragraphs, discourse-markers, discourse-motivated syntactic constructions: preposing/postposing, left/right dislocations, scrambling, and prosody; demonstratives/articles/pronouns, gender/number/person marking; tense/aspect/modality/evidentiality, case and agreement (anti-agreement, differential argument, marking); parentheticals.
Language families under
study include: Germanic,
Romance, Greek, Bantu, Chinese, Japanese, Mayan, Salish, Turkish, Persian,
Tagalog, Russian, Armenian, Hebrew,
Arabic
Analytical frameworks include: Generative syntax, compositional semantics, discourse
semantics, autosegmental-metrical phonology, Gricean and
Post-Gricean pragmatics.
Current funding: “Dialogue
Functions of Syntactic Constructions” (SFU Small SSHRC Grant, 2022-2024)
Director and Co-Director:
Nancy Hedberg, Director, Professor, SFU, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, ResearchGate, departmental website
Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Co-Director, Associate Professor, Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, USA, ResearchGate, departmental website
Lab manager:
Yifang Yuan, CPP Lab Graduate Research
Assistant. 2019 UBC MA thesis: “Response
markers in Mandarin Chinese conversation: A corpus-based case study of shi, dui, xing,
hao and the variants of shi.” SFU
Linguistics PhD thesis in progress: “Asking questions in context: An elicitation study of
questions in Mandarin Chinese conversation.”
Currently active members
(research assistants and volunteers):
Micaela Bilot, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics; CPP Lab Linguistics Department Undergraduate Research Assistant, spring 2023.
Teresita Garduno, BA student, SFU, Majors in Linguistics Psychology/Minor in Learning & Developmental Disabilities; CPP Lab Linguistics Department Undergraduate Research Assistant, spring 2022.
Zack
Gilkison, currently PhD student, SFU, Linguistics, working on Hul’q’umi’num’ Text Corpus. SFU 2020 MA thesis on “Quotation in Hul’q’umi’num’
Performance.” CPP Lab Graduate Research Assistant, 2021. ResearchGate
Emrah Görgülü, Associate Professor, Linguistics, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey; 2012 SFU PhD thesis: “Semantics of nouns and the specification of number in Turkish”; Research Assistant 2007-2011 on SSHRC-funded project on “The prosody of sentence type and information structure in North American English.” ResearchGate.
Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Associate Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Linguistics. ResearchGate
Juan Mañuel Sosa,
Visiting Professor, Linguistics, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, ResearchGate,
departmental
website; Associate Professor, retired, SFU. Coinvestigator 2007-2011on
SSHRC-funded project on “The
prosody of sentence type and information structure in North American English”
Keith Tse, Postdoctoral Researcher; PhD Linguistics, University of York, UK. ResearchGate.
Helen Zhang, currently MA student, SFU,
Linguistics, thesis title: “Creating an online Hul’q’umi’num
dictionary for teachers and learners”
Occasionally
active members/research affiliates/friends of the lab:
Jade Boiser, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics
Tristanio Coppola, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics, Minor in Italian Studies/TESL Certificate.
Nicole Dehé, Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany, Linguistics, ResearchGate, departmental website
Noureddine Elouazizi, currently Strategist, Teaching and Learning Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia. SFU 2020 PhD thesis on “The formal syntax for licensing parenthetical verb clauses,” (Moroccan Arabic). ResearchGate
Alex Hamo, currently PhD student, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. 2021 MA thesis on “Partitives and differential marking in Eastern Armenian,” California State University, Fullerton, USA, Linguistics, ResearchGate
Alissa Hewton, BA
student, SFU, Extended Minor in Linguistics/Major in Psychology
Rohan Ben Joseph, BSc student, SFU, Joint Major in Linguistics and Computing Science
Boey Kwan, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics; CPP Lab Linguistics Department Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2021.
Morgan Mameni. Artist. 2014-2022, Director of Research Intelligence, SFU, Office of the Vice President, Research and International, SFU 2011 MA thesis on “Epistemic implicature and inquisitive bias: A multidimensional semantics for polar interrogatives” (Persian). Research Assistant 2009-2011 on SSHRC-funded project on “The prosody of sentence type and information structure in North American English”
Nikita Nechayev, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics
Chelsea Riebesehl McGarvie, BA student, SFU, Major in Linguistics/Minors in Gerontology and History/Certificate in German
Allegra Simionato, currently communication officer, tourism industry, Northwest Territories. SFU 2022 BA graduate, Major in Linguistics/Minor in Kinesiology
Samuel To, BA student, SFU, Major in
Linguistics/Minor in Psychology; CPP Lab volunteer since fall semester 2021.
Justin Yan, BSc student, SFU, Major in Computing Science, Minor in Cognitive Science
ANYONE WISHING TO GET (FURTHER) INVOLVED, PLEASE EMAIL hedberg@sfu.ca
Memberships:
LISTEN Network
Speech Prosody
Special Interest Group
Association Canadienne de Linguistique/Canadian Linguistics
Association