Language production and interpretation : linguistics meets cognition / by Henk Zeevat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeevat, Henk, 1952- author.

Series:

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 30.

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational linguistics.

Psycholinguistics.

Cognition.

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xv, 220 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Aristotelian Competence Grammars 2

1.1.1 Against ACG: Ambiguity 5

1.1.2 Against ACG: Time Complexity 8

1.1.3 Against ACG: The Gap between Production and Interpretation 9

1.2 Production Grammar 11

1.2.1 The Primacy of Production 12

1.3 Strategies for Coordination 17

1.4 Bayesian Interpretation 19

1.4.1 Simulated Production in Interpretation 24

1.4.2 Mirror Neurons 26

1.5 Conclusion 27

1.6 The Other Chapters 32

2 Syntax 37

2.1 Optimality Theory 39

2.1.1 Reversing Production 42

2.2 Optimality-Theoretic Syntax 45

2.2.1 Optimality-Theoretic Syntax for Word Order in Dutch 45

2.2.2 Provisional German 51

2.2.3 Provisional English 52

2.3 The Production Algorithm 55

2.3.1 Procedural Interpretation of the Constraints 57

2.4 Higher Level Generation 61

2.5 Other Issues 64

2.5.1 More Dutch 64

2.5.2 A Worked Example 66

2.5.3 Incremental Syntax Checking in Interpretation 67

2.5.4 Quantification 69

2.6 Conclusion 71

3 Self-Monitoring 75

3.1 Optional Discourse Markers 77

3.1.1 General Self-Monitoring 80

3.2 Word Order Freezing 85

3.3 Pronouns and Ellipsis 90

3.4 Differential Case Marking 93

3.5 A Case for Phonological Self-Monitoring? 96

3.6 Conclusion 100

4 Interpretation 105

4.1 The Interpretation Algorithm 109

4.2 Vision and Pragmatics 120

4.2.1 Vision 12o

4.2.2 Other Cues 121

4.2.3 Pragmatics 123

4.2.4 Clark Buys Some Nails 131

4.2.5 Scalar Implicatures 133

4.2.6 Relevance Implicatures 134

4.3 Conclusion 135

5 Mental Representation 141

5.1 From Links to Representation Structures 142

5.2 Logic 148

5.2.1 Logical Operators 149

5.3 Mental Representations in Philosophy 152

5.4 Belief 158

5.5 Definiteness 165

5.6 Comparison with Discourse Semantics 177

5.6.1 From Contexts into Discourse Representation Theory 180

5.7 Conclusion 182

6 Final Remarks 185

6.1 Rounding Off 185

6.2 Computational Linguistics 186

6.3 Pragmatics 193

6.4 Semantic Compositionality 196

6.5 LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.0 197

6.6 Language Evolution 202

6.7 Conceptual Glue 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004252899

9004252894

OCLC:

862928880