书目名称 | On Sentence Interpretation |
编辑 | Lyn Frazier |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/702/701069/701069.mp4 |
丛书名称 | Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics |
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描述 | At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of howperceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to asentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension isthe idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by theperceiver at the earliest conceivable point, using all potentiallyrelevant sources of information. A variety of counter examples arepresented to argue against this implicit theory of sentenceinterpretation. It is argued that an explicit alternative theory isneeded to specify which decisions are made at which points duringinterpretive processing and to spell out the principles governing theprocessor‘s preferred choice at points of ambiguity or uncertainty.Several specific issues are taken concerning how the processor assignsa focal structure to an input sentence, how it identifies the topic ofthe sentence, how implicit restrictors on the domain of quantificationare interpreted and how the identification of the content of arestrictor may guide the processor‘s use of discourse information.Exploiting intuitions about preferred interpretations of ambiguoussentences as well as the results of both old and new experimentalstudies, |
出版日期 | Book 1999 |
关键词 | Index; present; uncertainty |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4599-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-0-7923-5602-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-4599-2Series ISSN 1873-0043 Series E-ISSN 2215-1788 |
issn_series | 1873-0043 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999 |