Syntax and Parsing Paperback / softback
by Paul (Universitat Potsdam, Germany) Gorrell
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:196 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/02/2006
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- ISBN:9780521024099
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:196 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/02/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521024099
