UG and external systems : language, brain, and computation / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 75.

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Psycholinguistics.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as asymmetries in the structure of syllables and feet. The Brain section discusses questions related to human learning and comprehension of language: the acquisition of compounds, the acquisition of the definite article, the subject/object asymmetry in the comprehension of D-Linked vs. non D-linked questions, the evidence for syntactic asymmetries in American Sign Language, the acquisition of syllable types, and the role of stress shift in the determination of phrase ending. The papers in the Computation section present different perspectives on how the properties of UG can be implemented in a parser; implementations of different theories including configurational selection, incorporation, and minimalism; and the role of statistical and quantitative approaches in natural language processing.

Contents:

UG and External Systems

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

UG and external systems

Introduction

Language

Brain

Computation

References

I. Language

Depictives

1. Introduction

2. Two classes of depictives

3. Previous analyses

4. Our proposal

5. Direct and indirect secondary predication

6. Conclusions

Notes

On two issues related to the clitic clusters in Romance languages

1. Goal

2. Clitic clusters

3. Issues and ways to deal with them

4. Language variation

5. Conclusion

Prosodic cues during online processing of speech

1. Overview

2. Experiment 1

3. Experiment 2

4. Discussion

Materials

On the question of (non)-agreement in the uses of Russian imperatives

2. Imperatives as "Defective" vs. full conditionals

3. Differences in the features of Russian imperatives

4. Conclusion

Computational puzzles of conditional clause preposing

1. Ordering restrictions on conditionals with respect to the main clause

2. The landing site of conditionals

3. On the trigger of conditional clause preposing

4. Summary

Clefts and tense asymmetries

1. The different types of clefts

2. Different accounts of clefts

3. Tense restrictions

4. Agreement restrictions

5. More on clefts and focus

6. Towards an analysis

7. Conclusion

Generating configurational asymmetries in prosodic phonology

2. Previous analyses of configurational asymmetries

3. Analysis: Rhythmic constraints in prosodic constituents

II. Brain

Language learnability and the forms of recursion

Introduction.

1. The Abstract Clitic Hypothesis

2. Cross-linguistic variation: Swedish

3. Cross-linguistic variation: French

4. Learnability and recursion

The autonomous contribution of syntax and pragmatics to the acquisition of the Hebrew definite article

2. The definite system

3. The acquisition of definiteness

4. The concept of non-shared knowledge and the Theory of Mind

5. Methodology

6. Discussion

D(iscourse)-linking and question formation

2. Accounts of the subject-object asymmetry

3. New experiments

5. Summary and conclusion

Acknowledgments

Evidence from ASL and ÖGS for asymmetries in UG

2. Evidence for argument asymmetries

3. Evidence for structural asymmetries

4. Structural asymmetries: Mixed headedness

5. Structural asymmetry: Spreading domains

6. Conclusion

Acquisition of phonological empty categories

2. Earlier studies

3. Our findings

4. Seeking a solution

5. A modified proposal

III. Computation

Morpho-syntax parsing

2. Asymmetry

3. Three parsing models

4. Consequences and conclusions

A Minimalist implementation of Hale-Keyser incorporation theory

1. The problem of verb subcategorization

Incorporation theory

Minimalist operations

Incorporation

Implementation Analysis

Acknowledgements

Appendix A

Minimalist languages and the correct prefix property

2. Minimalist Grammars

3. Context-Free Derivations

4. Top-down recognition

5. Correct prefix property

References.

Computation with probes and goals

2. The lexicon

3. Elementary trees

4. The Move Box

5. Limitations of theMove Box

6. Probes and goals

7. A preliminary comparison

8. Conclusions

Deep &amp

shallow linguistically based parsing

2. Linguistically-based parsing and linguistic strategies

3. Treebank derived structurals relations

4. Parser evaluation

Towards a quantitative theory of variability

2. Some examples

3. Basic constraints

4. Variability

5. Equilibrium principle

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156809

9781282156807

1282156802

9789027294524

9027294526

OCLC:

70774143