Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

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 …

It must certainly be accounted a paradox that probabilistic modeling is simultaneously one of
the oldest and one of the newest areas in psycholinguistics. Much research in linguistics and …

Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in
his 1970 paper" The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This' garden path sentence' …

This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about? And how do the
results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in related fields, particularly in psychology …

Current linguistic theories classify verbs together according to shared semantic and syntactic
properties. This dissertation explores one particular class of verbs—change of state verbs …

This dissertation presents and evaluates the hypothesis that event structure information such
as telicity is used during language comprehension. A verb or verb phrase is telic if it denotes …

Current interest in automatic sentiment analysis is motivated by a variety of information
requirements. The vast majority of work in sentiment analysis has been specifically targeted …

Abstract Entities realized in syntactically prominent positions are preferred antecedents for
pronominal reference. This has been demonstrated in numerous psycholinguistic …

Vve zeport a number of computatmnal experiments m supervised learning whose goal Is to
automatmally classify a set of verbs into lexmal semanUc classes, based on frequency …