Diana Van Lancker Sidtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3480164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Van Lancker Sidtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana Van Lancker |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidtis |
| SIGNATURE | SIDTIS D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8093-4847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pathological Prosody
Prosody in speech arises from fundamental frequency (f0), temporal measures, amplitude, and voice quality. These parameters in various combinations signal linguistic, emotional-attitudinal, and personal identity information. Prosodic processing engages cortical, subcortical, cerebellar, and brainstem systems, and damage to any of these can result in dysprosody. Despite the crucial role played by prosody in communication, little attention has been…
What’s in a Sociopolitical Pronoun? A Linguist Looks at Grammatical Gender in Gender Declaration
Language practices, whether global, national, or at the personal level, carry influence for both good and ill. It is important that linguistic ventures into sociopolitical realms be well-informed. One such incursion has arisen from professors and administrators in university and government offices, who declare their pronoun choice, appending statements such as my pronouns are she, her, hers, at the end of their signature lines in letters and emai…
A Closer Look at Formulaic Language
Formulaic expressions (such as idioms, proverbs, and conversational speech formulas) are currently a topic of interest. Examination of prosody in formulaic utterances, a less explored property of formulaic expressions, has yielded controversial views. The present study investigates prosodic characteristics of proverbs, as one type of formulaic expression, including tonal patterns and rate. Seven familiar proverbs and matched control sentences wer…
The formulaic schema in the minds of two generations of native speakers
). Our goals were to quantify speakers' knowledge, examine semantic flexibility in open slots, and compare performance data in two generations of speakers using cloze procedures in formulaic expressions, schemata open slots, fixed portions of schemata, and novel sentences. Fewer unique words appeared for the schemata-fixed and formulaic exemplars, reflecting speakers' knowledge of these utterances; the most semantic categories appeared for schema…
Pragmatic verbal repetition
The use of “pragmatic repetition,” the iteration of one’s own speech or the speech of a co-participant, while known to occur in conversation, has been overlooked in the language sciences. This study presents a method for establishing incidence, characteristics, and functions of pragmatic repetition during conversational exchanges. The method is applied to three discourse samples: a screenplay, a television reality show, and an unscripted telephon…
In the Beginning Was the Familiar Voice
Formulaic Language and Language Disorders
The importance of formulaic language is recognized by many branches of the language sciences. Second language learners acquire a language using a maturationally advanced neurological substrate, leading to a profile of formulaic language use and knowledge that differs from that of the prepuberty learner. Unlike the considerable interest in formulaic language seen in second language learning, attention paid to this theme in clinical communicative d…
Where in the Brain Is Nonliteral Language
This review examines brain processing of nonliteral expressions that are familiar in form and meaning to the native speaker, such as idioms, proverbs, swearing, and speech formulas. The properties of stereotyped form and conventional meaning distinguish nonliteral utterances from novel expressions. An historical overview of preserved "automatic" speech in aphasia and impaired nonpropositional speech in other neurological diseases suggests that th…
In the Beginning Was the Familiar Voice
Formulaic Language and Language Disorders
The importance of formulaic language is recognized by many branches of the language sciences. Second language learners acquire a language using a maturationally advanced neurological substrate, leading to a profile of formulaic language use and knowledge that differs from that of the prepuberty learner. Unlike the considerable interest in formulaic language seen in second language learning, attention paid to this theme in clinical communicative d…
Where in the Brain Is Nonliteral Language
This review examines brain processing of nonliteral expressions that are familiar in form and meaning to the native speaker, such as idioms, proverbs, swearing, and speech formulas. The properties of stereotyped form and conventional meaning distinguish nonliteral utterances from novel expressions. An historical overview of preserved "automatic" speech in aphasia and impaired nonpropositional speech in other neurological diseases suggests that th…
In the Beginning Was the Familiar Voice
Formulaic Language and Language Disorders
The importance of formulaic language is recognized by many branches of the language sciences. Second language learners acquire a language using a maturationally advanced neurological substrate, leading to a profile of formulaic language use and knowledge that differs from that of the prepuberty learner. Unlike the considerable interest in formulaic language seen in second language learning, attention paid to this theme in clinical communicative d…
The formulaic schema in the minds of two generations of native speakers
). Our goals were to quantify speakers' knowledge, examine semantic flexibility in open slots, and compare performance data in two generations of speakers using cloze procedures in formulaic expressions, schemata open slots, fixed portions of schemata, and novel sentences. Fewer unique words appeared for the schemata-fixed and formulaic exemplars, reflecting speakers' knowledge of these utterances; the most semantic categories appeared for schema…
Pragmatic verbal repetition
The use of “pragmatic repetition,” the iteration of one’s own speech or the speech of a co-participant, while known to occur in conversation, has been overlooked in the language sciences. This study presents a method for establishing incidence, characteristics, and functions of pragmatic repetition during conversational exchanges. The method is applied to three discourse samples: a screenplay, a television reality show, and an unscripted telephon…
A Closer Look at Formulaic Language
Formulaic expressions (such as idioms, proverbs, and conversational speech formulas) are currently a topic of interest. Examination of prosody in formulaic utterances, a less explored property of formulaic expressions, has yielded controversial views. The present study investigates prosodic characteristics of proverbs, as one type of formulaic expression, including tonal patterns and rate. Seven familiar proverbs and matched control sentences wer…
Pathological Prosody
Prosody in speech arises from fundamental frequency (f0), temporal measures, amplitude, and voice quality. These parameters in various combinations signal linguistic, emotional-attitudinal, and personal identity information. Prosodic processing engages cortical, subcortical, cerebellar, and brainstem systems, and damage to any of these can result in dysprosody. Despite the crucial role played by prosody in communication, little attention has been…
What’s in a Sociopolitical Pronoun? A Linguist Looks at Grammatical Gender in Gender Declaration
Language practices, whether global, national, or at the personal level, carry influence for both good and ill. It is important that linguistic ventures into sociopolitical realms be well-informed. One such incursion has arisen from professors and administrators in university and government offices, who declare their pronoun choice, appending statements such as my pronouns are she, her, hers, at the end of their signature lines in letters and emai…
Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works)