On Sentence Interpretation: v.22 (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics) - Hardcover

Frazier, Lyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792355083 ISBN 13: 9780792355083

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

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. Several specific issues are explored 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792355083
• ISBN 13: 9780792355083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188