Laurie Stowe. Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In G. Carlson and M. Tanenhaus, editors, Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Kluwer Academic, 1989. 11  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....unification will fail in an early stage, so improving e#ciency. Second, typed features often reveal bugs sooner than non typed systems, which will save the grammar developer time. IMPACT NLI 1998 2 IMPACT 3.2 Requirements for Fast Unification 11 3.1. 2 Graded Unification From past research (e.g. [Sto89, TTG94, FBK82]) it can be concluded that semantic and probabilistic information are imperative to come to both e#cient and linguistically accurate syntactical analysis (not to mention the complete analysis) Kim94] mentions how of thematic roles of words play a crucial part in the process. He gives the ....

Laurie Stowe. Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In G. Carlson and M. Tanenhaus, editors, Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Kluwer Academic, 1989. 11

....will fail in an early stage, so improving efficiency. Second, typed features often reveal bugs sooner than non typed systems, which will save the grammar developer time. IMPACT NLI 1998 2 IMPACT 3.2 Requirements for Fast Unification 11 3.1. 2 Graded Unification From past research (e.g. [Sto89, TTG94, FBK82]) it can be concluded that semantic and probabilistic information are imperative to come to both efficient and linguistically accurate syntactical analysis (not to mention the complete analysis) Kim94] mentions how of thematic roles of words play a crucial part in the process. He gives the ....

Laurie Stowe. Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In G. Carlson and M. Tanenhaus, editors, Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Kluwer Academic, 1989.

.... the initial misinterpretation might influence the ultimate comprehension of the garden path sentences (Abney, 1988; Crain Steedman, 1985; De Vincenzi Job, 1993; Ferreira Clifton, 1986; Frazier, 1978; Pickering Traxler, 1998; Rayner, Garrod, Perfetti, 1992; Spivey Knowlton Sedivy, 1995; Stowe, 1989). Sentences were written so that (for example) the deer was either running into the woods or pacing in the zoo (see Table 1) In the latter case, it is much less likely that the man is hunting the deer. If the plausibility of the interpretation that comes from the initial thematic role assignments ....

Stowe, L. (1989). Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In G.N. Carlson and M.K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Linguistic structure in language processing (pp. 319-357) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

....processing complexity, recoverable garden paths, and total processor breakdown (as discussed in section 2. 2) Furthermore, there is no way of explaining the thematic pragmatic effects on parsing which have been observed in numerous experiments (see [Crain Steedman 85] Carlson Tanenhaus 88] Stowe 89] and references cited therein) In sum, the Berwick and Weinberg model provides only a partial, and language specific, account of processing phenomena, and the strong assumption of determinism or monotonicity in the syntactic processor seems incompatible with any explanation of relative ....

....(e.g. the syntactic processor must wait on lexical input from the phono lexical processor, etc. The net result is that post syntactic processes can incrementally interpret the incoming material and evaluate it very quickly with respect to context and pragmatics, as empirical evidence suggests [Stowe 89] Crain Steedman 85] It is important to note, however, that while the PIC does not conflict with the modular architecture, it does presume that the constituent modules are sensitive to the more general task. That is, in addition to operating incrementally, the PIC also requires that in ....

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Laurie A. Stowe. Thematic Structures and Sentence Comprehension. In Greg Carlson and Michael Tanenhaus, editors, Linguistic Structure in Language Processing, pages 319--357. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1989.

....suggest that when the comma was omitted, subjects attempted to construe the ambiguous NP the vet as the object of the preceding verb, even when it was purely intransitive. In other words, the lexical property of intransitivity was not as effective as the comma in avoiding a transitive analysis. Stowe (1989, experiment 1) provides evidence that directly contradicts Mitchell s claim that verb subcategorization information is ignored by the first phase of sentence processing. Stowe exploited the phenomenon of causative ergative alternation, exemplified in (50) to show that readers are immediately ....

....Disconnectedness predicts difficulty with (53) 56) In fact, since Disconnectedness is insensitive to lexical or conceptual preferences, its input to the analysis selection process could conflict with the input from lexical preferences. This conflict can account for the puzzling findings of Stowe s (1989) second experiment above. The findings of Holmes et al. 1987) and Kennedy et al. 1989) that in sentences such as (36) above, repeated here as (65) the clausal conditions TC and RC are slower to read than TR, are also consistent with the additional disconnectedness associated with the subject ....

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Stowe, Laurie A. 1989. Thematic structures and sentence comprehension. In Greg N. Carlson and Michael K. Tanehaus (Eds.), Linguistic Structure in Language Processing . Kluwer Academic Press.

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