Introduction to Syntax Session 1

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Presentation Topic 2 Sentence Processing Many sentences are ambiguous in meaning. However, often only one meaning is predominant. Sometimes this is even the one that should be excluded by world knowledge or other factors. Furthermore, some sentences are virtually uninterpretable, although they actually do have a perfect meaning. We call this effect the garden path effect. People have argued for certain human parsing strategies that can be held responsible for these effects. Read the following papers about human parsing in general and garden path effects in particular and report the results of these papers to the class. 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 32
Presentation Topic 2 Overview Article-- • Altmann, Gerry (1998): Ambiguity in Sentence Processing, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(4), 146-152 [StudIP] Suggestions for human parsing strategies— • Frazier, L. (1987) Sentence processing: a tutorial review. In M. Coltheart (Hg.), Attention & Performance XII. Hilsdale, Erlbaum, 559-586. [Reader, my office] • Crain, Stephen and Mark Steedman (1985): On not being led up the garden-path: the use of context by the psychological parser. In D. Dowty, L. Kartunnen, and A. Zwicky (eds.) Natural Language Parsing. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. [Reader, my office] 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 33
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