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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b11345758.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Discourse Dependent Interpretation and the Role of Mental Models -- Ch. 3. Sentence-Internal Interpretation: Limitations on Immediate Interpretation -- Ch. 4. Focus -- Ch. 5. Topics -- Ch. 6. Tripartite Structures and the Guided use of Context -- Ch. 7. The Interpretation of DPS -- Ch. 8. Conclusions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-162) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 171 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "On sentence interpretation.".
- catalog identifier "0792355083 (hardbound : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "On sentence interpretation.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 22".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
- catalog relation "On sentence interpretation.".
- catalog subject "401/.9 21".
- catalog subject "Grammar, Comparative and general Sentences.".
- catalog subject "P37 .F68 1999".
- catalog subject "Psycholinguistics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Discourse Dependent Interpretation and the Role of Mental Models -- Ch. 3. Sentence-Internal Interpretation: Limitations on Immediate Interpretation -- Ch. 4. Focus -- Ch. 5. Topics -- Ch. 6. Tripartite Structures and the Guided use of Context -- Ch. 7. The Interpretation of DPS -- Ch. 8. Conclusions.".
- catalog title "On sentence interpretation / by Lyn Frazier.".
- catalog type "text".