Naomi Peck
Biographic Data
| ID | 8759388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Peck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Peck |
| SIGNATURE | PECK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3567-813X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How much is too much
The one-new-idea constraint (ONICON) is a classic of functionalist literature.This hypothesis, proposing that no more than one new idea can be realised in a single intonation unit, plays a central role in Wallace Chafe's work (e.g
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint
The One-New-Idea-Constraint (ONICON) is proposed to be an absolute universal on human cognitive capabilities. While the ONICON predicts that we maximally realise one new idea at a time, it does not account for the maximal amount of information that can be realised at any point in discourse. To help us better understand factors influencing information flow in discourse, we may instead wish to turn our focus to verbalisation, the cognitive process …
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint
This paper offers a conceptual clarification and an operationalization of a classic functionalist generalization: the one-new-idea constraint ( Chafe 1982 , 1987, 1994). While often referenced, this constraint has not, to date, been sufficiently spelled-out or made sufficiently precise to become testable. This paper aims to fill this gap by, first, differentiating the concept of idea into discourse-level and lexical-semantic ideahood. Secondly, w…
Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations
In this study, we look at the distribution of silent pauses within existing multi-language corpora to see whether their location and duration correlate with clause boundaries. Our study is based on data of seven languages from Multi-CAST. We supplemented the original clause boundary annotations with information about silent pauses in order to investigate the alignment of clause boundaries and pausing. We find a gradient association between clause…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang
Less inflectional categories are found in negated clauses than are found in affirmative clauses in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Bhutan. It is common cross-linguistically for languages to make fewer contrasts in negative clauses than in affirmative ones. In this paper we focus on the less expected appearance of the ergative case in certain negated irrealis clauses, where the use of this case would be ungrammatical in the corresponding aff…
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The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang
Less inflectional categories are found in negated clauses than are found in affirmative clauses in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Bhutan. It is common cross-linguistically for languages to make fewer contrasts in negative clauses than in affirmative ones. In this paper we focus on the less expected appearance of the ergative case in certain negated irrealis clauses, where the use of this case would be ungrammatical in the corresponding aff…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations
In this study, we look at the distribution of silent pauses within existing multi-language corpora to see whether their location and duration correlate with clause boundaries. Our study is based on data of seven languages from Multi-CAST. We supplemented the original clause boundary annotations with information about silent pauses in order to investigate the alignment of clause boundaries and pausing. We find a gradient association between clause…
How much is too much
The one-new-idea constraint (ONICON) is a classic of functionalist literature.This hypothesis, proposing that no more than one new idea can be realised in a single intonation unit, plays a central role in Wallace Chafe's work (e.g
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint
The One-New-Idea-Constraint (ONICON) is proposed to be an absolute universal on human cognitive capabilities. While the ONICON predicts that we maximally realise one new idea at a time, it does not account for the maximal amount of information that can be realised at any point in discourse. To help us better understand factors influencing information flow in discourse, we may instead wish to turn our focus to verbalisation, the cognitive process …
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint
This paper offers a conceptual clarification and an operationalization of a classic functionalist generalization: the one-new-idea constraint ( Chafe 1982 , 1987, 1994). While often referenced, this constraint has not, to date, been sufficiently spelled-out or made sufficiently precise to become testable. This paper aims to fill this gap by, first, differentiating the concept of idea into discourse-level and lexical-semantic ideahood. Secondly, w…
Linguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Academic Writing and Publishing (1 work) · Annotation (1 work)