Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation

JC Sedivy, MK Tanenhaus, CG Chambers, GN Carlson - Cognition, 1999 - Elsevier
While much work has been done investigating the role of context in the incremental
processing of syntactic indeterminacies, relatively little is known about online semantic …

Cognitive control and parsing: Reexamining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension

JM Novick, JC Trueswell… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2005 - Springer
A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition,
including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …

A probabilistic model of lexical and syntactic access and disambiguation

D Jurafsky - Cognitive science, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The problems of access—retrieving linguistic structure from some mental grammar—and
disambiguation—choosing among these structures to correctly parse ambiguous linguistic …

Consequences of the serial nature of linguistic input for sentenial complexity

D Grodner, E Gibson - Cognitive science, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most
recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in …

Using prosody to avoid ambiguity: Effects of speaker awareness and referential context

J Snedeker, J Trueswell - Journal of Memory and language, 2003 - Elsevier
In three experiments, a referential communication task was used to determine the conditions
under which speakers produce and listeners use prosodic cues to distinguish alternative …

[图书][B] Postverbal behavior

T Wasow - 2002 - stanford.edu
 Grammatical Weight Introduction Proposed Definitions of Weight
Evaluating Characterizations of Weight Length and Complexity Explaining Weight …

Combinatory categorial grammar

M Steedman, J Baldridge - Non‐Transformational Syntax …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Categorial Grammar (CG; Ajdukiewicz 1935; Bar-Hillel 1953) is one of the oldest lexicalized
grammar formalisms, in which all grammatical constituents are distinguished by a syntactic …

[PDF][PDF] Order and structure

C Phillips - 1996 - dspace.mit.edu
I should clarify at the outset what I mean by the term parser. I take this to refer specifically to
tht: structure building system that it used in sentence recognition, and not to the many other …

Integrating verbs, situation schemas, and thematic role concepts

TR Ferretti, K McRae, A Hatherell - Journal of Memory and Language, 2001 - Elsevier
Linguistic and psycholinguistic theories differ with regard to the conceptual content of verbs'
thematic roles. In Experiments 1 and 2, single-word priming was used to demonstrate that …

[图书][B] Reference form and discourse patterns

JE Arnold - 1998 - search.proquest.com
As a part of language use, people need to refer to things, people, and ideas in ways that
they know their interlocutors will understand. Speakers must often choose among alternate …