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Focus Movement

Focus Movement is a syntactic operation in generative grammar whereby a constituent is displaced to a preverbal focus position to satisfy information-structure requirements, distinguishing it from other movement types by its exclusive sensitivity to focus feature valuation.

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Instructions for Motor Learning: Differential Effects of Internal Versus External Focus of Attention

Gabriele Wulf, Markus Höß, Wolfgang Prinz · Journal of Motor Behavior · 1998 · 729 citations

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Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Gisbert Fanselow, Denisa Lenertová · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2010 · 289 citations · Full text

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A stress-based approach to the syntax of Hungarian focus

Kriszta Szendröi · The Linguistic Review · 2003 · 258 citations

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Toward a typology of focus and focus constructions

Hans Bernhard Drubig · Linguistics · 2003 · 177 citations

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Shi … de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese

Waltraud Paul, John Whitman · The Linguistic Review · 2008 · 149 citations

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Authors

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  1. KB
    Kevin B. Paterson

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 221 citations

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  2. RF
    Ruth Filik

    University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 221 citations

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  3. SP
    Simon P. Liversedge

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 221 citations

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  4. KS
    Kriszta Szendröi

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 292 citations

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  5. SI
    Shinichiro Ishihara

    Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

    1 publications · 113 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    239 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    100 citations

  3. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    305 citations

  4. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    221 citations

  5. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    337 citations

  6. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    42 citations

  8. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

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  1. The Linguistic Review

    5 publications · 479 citations

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  2. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    3 publications · 79 citations

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  3. Linguistic Inquiry

    3 publications · 58 citations

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  4. Studia Linguistica

    2 publications · 85 citations

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