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Title: The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing : Formal, Computational and Experimental Issues

Editors: Paola Merlo & Suzanne Stevenson

Series: Natural Language Processing, 4

Publisher: John Benjamins, Amsterdam; August 2002

Level: Specialized Editorial

Fields: Computational linguistics / Natural language processing - Psycholinguistics

Keywords: lexicalist theory, sentence understanding, verbs, neuro-imaging

ISBN: 1588111563, English, Hardcover, 348 pages

Publisher's Abstract:

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collec1000tion provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The focus of this stimulating volume is on a number of central topics: The discussion of foundational issues concerning the nature of the lexicon and its relationship to sentence understanding; the exploration of the relationship between syntactic and lexical processing; and the investigation of the specific content of lexical entries, especially for verbs. The authors draw on a range of methodologies, from computational modeling to corpus studies to behavioral and neuro-imaging experimental techniques. The breadth of topics and methodologies is brought together by the articulated, critical analysis of the field provided in the introduction. The research reported here elaborates both the structure and the probabilistic content of lexical representations, and meets up with work in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy on the relation between conceptual, grammatical, and statistical knowledge.

Table of Contents

1	Words, numbers and all that: The lexicon in sentence understanding	Suzanne  Stevenson  and Paola  Merlo	1
2	The lexicon in Optimality Theory	Joan  Bresnan	39
3	Optimality–theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar	Mark  Johnson	59
4	The lexicon and the laundromat	Jerry  Fodor	75
5	Semantics in the spin cycle: Competence and performance criteria for the creation of lexical entries	Amy  Weinberg	85
6	Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing	Mark  Steedman	95
7	A computational model of the grammatical aspects of wordrecognition as supertagging	Albert E.  Kim , Bangalore  Srinivas  and John  Trueswell	109
8	Inc1000rementality and lexicalism: A treebank study	Vincenzo  Lombardo  and Patrick  Sturt	137
9	Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms: The case from lexical category disambiguation	Matt  Crocker  and Steffan  Corley	157
10	Encoding and storage in working memory duringsentence comprehension	Laurie A.  Stowe , Rienk G.  Withaar , Albertus A.  Wijers , Cees A.J.  Broere  and Anne M.J.  Paans	181
11	The time course of information integration in sentence processing	Michael J.  Spivey , Stanka A.  Fitneva , Whitney  Tabor  and Sameer  Ajmani	207
12	The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their rolein sentence and discourse understanding	Gail  Mauner , Jean-Pierre  Koenig , Alissa  Melinger  and Breton  Bienvenue	233
13	Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses	Hana  Filip , Michael K.  Tanenhaus , Greg N.  Carlson , Paul D.  Allopenna  and Joshua  Blatt	255
14	Predicting thematic role assignments in context	Gerry T.M.  Altmann	281
15	Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases	Vera  Argamann  and Neal J.  Pearlmutter	303
16	Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities	Doug  Roland  and Daniel  Jurafsky	325

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Merlo, Paola & Suzanne Stevenson. 2002. The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational and Experimental Issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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