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Author | : Lyn Frazier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1999-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780792356028 |
At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by the perceiver at the earliest conceivable point, using all potentially relevant sources of information. A variety of counter examples are presented to argue against this implicit theory of sentence interpretation. It is argued that an explicit alternative theory is needed to specify which decisions are made at which points during interpretive processing and to spell out the principles governing the processor's preferred choice at points of ambiguity or uncertainty. Several specific issues are taken concerning how the processor assigns a focal structure to an input sentence, how it identifies the topic of the sentence, how implicit restrictors on the domain of quantification are interpreted and how the identification of the content of a restrictor may guide the processor's use of discourse information. Exploiting intuitions about preferred interpretations of ambiguous sentences as well as the results of both old and new experimental studies, a theory of the preferred interpretation of Determiner Phrases is presented. This work explores important, but overlooked questions in on-line sentence interpretation and attempts to erect some of the scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence interpretation.
Author | : Lyn Frazier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401145997 |
At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by the perceiver at the earliest conceivable point, using all potentially relevant sources of information. A variety of counter examples are presented to argue against this implicit theory of sentence interpretation. It is argued that an explicit alternative theory is needed to specify which decisions are made at which points during interpretive processing and to spell out the principles governing the processor's preferred choice at points of ambiguity or uncertainty. Several specific issues are taken concerning how the processor assigns a focal structure to an input sentence, how it identifies the topic of the sentence, how implicit restrictors on the domain of quantification are interpreted and how the identification of the content of a restrictor may guide the processor's use of discourse information. Exploiting intuitions about preferred interpretations of ambiguous sentences as well as the results of both old and new experimental studies, a theory of the preferred interpretation of Determiner Phrases is presented. This work explores important, but overlooked questions in on-line sentence interpretation and attempts to erect some of the scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence interpretation.
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Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Rainer Bäuerle |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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No detailed description available for "Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language".
Author | : Robin S. Chapman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110878143 |
No detailed description available for "The Interpretation of Deviant Sentences in English".
Author | : P. Sgall |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1986-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027718389 |
Author | : Peter Maurice Ward |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Author | : Pui-Sze Yeung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781374754744 |
This dissertation, "An Investigation of the Sentence Interpretation Strategies Among Chinese-English Bilinguals in Hong Kong" by Pui-sze, Yeung, 揚佩詩, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3122544 Subjects: English Language - Sentences - Study and teaching Psycholinguistics Bilingualism - China - Hong Kong Language acquisition Students - China - Hong Kong - Language
Author | : Kazuo Sumita |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Cognitive science |
ISBN | : |
Abstract: "This paper describes the amount of information of a sentence interpretation, which is used as a measure for the disambiguation process in a natural language understanding system. This measure is defined, based on a hearer's model with knowledge base composed of proposition set and inference rule set. Selecting the most informative interpretation by this measure is reasonable in the sence that communication is an act whereby messages are transmitted with the least effort. This formalization is applied to a practical procedure for anaphoric ambiguity resolution, which is constructed as a part of a question-answering system. Furthermore, a conversation experiment was carried out, and it was found that ninety-three percent of referents corresponding to anaphoric indicators could be correctly determined."
Author | : Paul Warren |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521113636 |
How humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them.