Architectures Mech Lang Processing
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521027502, ISBN10: 0521027500
Paperback, 376 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
The architectures and mechanisms underlying language processing form one important part of the general structure of cognition. This book, written by leading experts in the field, brings together linguistic, psychological and computational perspectives on some of the fundamental issues. Several general introductory chapters offer overviews on important psycholinguistic research frameworks and highlight both shared assumptions and controversial issues. Subsequent chapters explore syntactic and lexical mechanisms; statistical and connectionist models of language understanding; the crucial importance of linguistic representations in explaining behavioural phenomena; evidence from a variety of studies and methodologies concerning the interaction of syntax and semantics; and the implications for cognitive architecture. The book concludes with a set of contributions on select issues of interpretation, including quantification, focus and anaphora in language understanding. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing will appeal to students and scholars alike as a comprehensive and timely survey of recent work in this interdisciplinary area.
Contributors
Preface
1. Architectures and mechanisms in sentence comprehension Martin J. Pickering, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Matthew W. Crocker
Part I. Frameworks
2. Evaluating models of human sentence processing Charles Clifton, Jr
3. Specifying architectures for language processing
process, control, and memory in parsing and interpretation Richard L. Lewis
4. Modeling thematic and discourse context effects with a multiple constraints approach
implications for the architecture of the language comprehension system Michael K. Tanenhaus, Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, and Joy E. Hanna
5. Late closure in context
some consequences for parsimony Gerry T. M. Altmann
Part II. Syntactic and Lexical Mechanisms
6. The modular statistical hypothesis
exploring lexical category ambiguity Steffan Corley and Matthew W. Crocker
7. Lexical syntax and parsing architecture Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson
8. Constituency, context, and connectionism in syntactic parsing James Henderson
Part III. Syntax and Semantics
9. On the electrophysiology of language comprehension
implications for the human language system Colin Brown and Peter Hagoort
10. Parsing and incremental understanding during reading Martin J. Pickering and Matthew J. Traxler
11. Syntactic attachment and anaphor resolution
the two sides of relative clause attachment Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny, and Christoph Scheepers
12. Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics Marica De Vincenzi
Part IV. Interpretation
13. On interpretation
minimal 'lowering' Lyn Frazier
14. Focus effects associated with negative quantifiers Linda M. Moxey and Anthony J. Sanford
15. Constraints and mechanisms in theories of anaphor processing Amit Almor
Author index
Subject index.