The lexical basis of sentence processing : formal, computational, and experimental issues / edited by Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merlo, Paola, 1949-

Stevenson, Suzanne.

Series:

Natural language processing (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 4.

Natural language processing, 1567-8202 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Lexicology--Congresses.

Lexicology.

Psycholinguistics--Congresses.

Psycholinguistics.

Computational linguistics--Congresses.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

viii, 362 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Summary:

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The focus of this stimulating volume is on a number of central topics: The discussion of foundational issues concerning the nature of the lexicon and its relationship to sentence understanding; the exploration of the relationship between syntactic and lexical processing; and the investigation of the specific content of lexical entries, especially for verbs. The authors draw on a range of methodologies, from computational modeling to corpus studies to behavioral and neuro-imaging experimental techniques. The breadth of topics and methodologies is brought together by the articulated, critical analysis of the field provided in the introduction. The research reported here elaborates both the structure and the probabilistic content of lexical representations, and meets up with work in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy on the relation between conceptual, grammatical, and statistical knowledge.

Contents:

The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Words, numbers and all that

The lexicon in Optimality Theory

Optimality-theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar

The lexicon and the laundromat

Semantics in the spin cycle

Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing

A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging

Incrementality and lexicalism

Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms

Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension

The time course of information integration in sentence processing

The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role in sentence and discourse understanding

Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses

Predicting thematic role assignments in context

Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases

Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities

Author index

Item index

Natural Language Processing.

Notes:

"This volume derives from the special conference session ... held in conjunction with the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-21, 1998"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161940

9781282161948

1282161946

9789027297488

9027297487

OCLC:

70739435