Syntax and Parsing

by Paul Gorrell

Overview

In this examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, Paul Gorrell argues for a distinct processing component that is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and that utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a GovernmentSHBinding grammar. He contrasts the primary and secondary relations in a phrase-structure tree, and shows how this distinction is reflected in the internal structure of the parser, a model that can also predict garden-path phenomena in the processing of verb-final clauses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521024099
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/13/2006
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #76
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.47(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Properties of the grammar; 3. Analyses of previous work; 4. Properties of the parser; 5. Modularity and structural determinism; 6. Conclusion; Reference; Index.