A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition, including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …