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, 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
Preface vii
Words, numbers and all that: The lexicon in sentence understanding
Suzanne Stevenson and Paola Merlo 1
The lexicon in Optimality Theory
Joan Bresnan 39
Optimality-theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar
Mark Johnson 59
The lexicon and the laundromat
Jerry Fodor 75
Semantics in the spin cycle: Competence and performance criteria for
the creation of lexical entries
Amy Weinberg 85
Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing
Mark Steedman 95
A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition
as supertagging
Albert E. Kim, Bangalore Srinivas, John Trueswell 109
Incrementality and lexicalism: A treebank study
Vincenzo Lombardo and Patrick Sturt 137
Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms: The case from
lexical category disambiguation
Matt Crocker and Steffan Corley 157
Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension
Laurie A. Stowe, Rienk G. Withaar, Albertus A. Wijers, Cees
A.J. Broere, Anne M.J. Paans 181
The time course of information integration in sentence processing
Michael Spivey, Stanka A. Fitneva, Whitney Tabor, Sameer Ajmani 207
The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role in
sentence and discourse understanding
Gail Mauner, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Alissa Melinger, Breton
Bienvenue 233
Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses
Hana Filip, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Gregory N. Carlson, Paul
D. Allopenna, Joshua Blatt 255
Predicting thematic role assignments in context
Gerry T.M. Altmann 281
Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases
Vera Argamann and Neal J. Pearlmutter 303
Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities
Doug Roland and Daniel Jurafsky 325
Author index 347
Item index 355
Lingfield(s): Computational Linguistics,
Natural Language Processing (Computational Linguistics)
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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