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The lexical basis of sentence processing : formal, computational, and experimental issues / edited by Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson.

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Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics, computa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Merlo, Paola, 1949-, Stevenson, Suzanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
Series:Natural language processing (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Congresses.
Lexicology > Congresses.
Psycholinguistics > Congresses.
Computational linguistics > Congresses.
Computational linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Lexicology.
Psycholinguistics.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Words, numbers and all that; The lexicon in Optimality Theory; Optimality-theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar; The lexicon and the laundromat; Semantics in the spin cycle; Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing; A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging; Incrementality and lexicalism; Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms; Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension.

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