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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780521024099
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-521-02409-9
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.12.2005
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2005
- Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 293 g
- Seiten: 192
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 11 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt