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Language production and interpretation : linguistics meets cognition / By Henk Zeevat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeevat, Henk, 1952-
- Series:
- Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 30.
- Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface ; v. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computational linguistics.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Cognition.
- Semantics.
- Pragmatics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An utterance is normally produced by a speaker in linear time and the hearer normally correctly identifies the speaker intention in linear time and incrementally. This is hard to understand in a standard competence grammar since languages are highly ambiguous and context-free parsing is not linear. Deterministic utterance generation from intention and n-best Bayesian interpretation, based on the production grammar and the prior probabilities that need to be assumed for other perception do much better. The proposed model uses symbolic grammar and derives symbolic semantic representations, but treats interpretation as just another form of perception. Removing interpretation from grammar is not only empirically motivated, but also makes linguistics a much more feasible enterprise. The importance of Henk Zeevat's new monograph cannot be overstated. Its combination of breadth, formal rigor, and originality is unparalleled in work on the form-meaning interface in human language...Zeevat's is the first proposal which provides a computationally feasible integrated treatment of production and comprehension for pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and even phonology. I recommend it to anyone who combines interests in language, logic, and computation with a sense of adventure. David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Syntax
- Self-monitoring
- Interpretation
- Mental Representation
- Final Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004252905
- 9004252908
- OCLC:
- 870759988
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004252905 DOI
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