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SYNTAX AND PARSING
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| By: |
Paul Gorrell, P. Austin, J. Bresnan |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521024099 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521024099 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2005 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics No. 76 |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
An examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension. |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar. Paul Gorrell contrasts the primary relations (dominance and precedence) and secondary relations (case assignment, theta-role assignment, etc.) in a phrase-structure tree, and shows how this computational distinction of information types is reflected in the internal structure of the parser, which consists of two sub-components: a structure builder (responsible for creating nodes in a tree and positing primary relations between them), and a structure interpreter (responsible for analysing the tree in terms of secondary relations). This model can also predict garden-path phenomena in the processing of verb-final clauses. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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