The ‘Idea’ in the One-New-Idea Constraint

Editors

Uta Reinöhl | University of Freiburg

Naomi Peck | University of Freiburg | University of Bremen

[Functions of Language, 33:1/2] Expected September 2026. ca. 125 pp.

Publishing status: In production

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interface Uta Reinöhl and Naomi Peck	1–9
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint Uta Reinöhl and Naomi Peck	10–43
Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors: The one-new-idea tendency as an emergent phenomenon Pavel Ozerov	44–80
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint Naomi Peck	81–110
The role of information packaging in shaping linguistic structure Marianne Mithun	111–132
The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processing Uta Reinöhl and Mark Ellison	133–159
A cross-linguistic computational study on one new idea per clause Guido M. Linders and Stefan Schnell	160–192

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