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....between a productive competence and restricted resources. There are, in fact, quite plausible Classical accounts of why center embeddings ought to impose especially heavy demands on resources, and there is a reasonable amount of experimental support for these models. See, for example, Wanner and Maratsos, 1978. In any event, it should be obvious that the difficulty of parsing center embeddings can t be a consequence of their recursiveness per se since there are many recursive structures that are strikingly easy to understand. Consider: this is the dog that chased the cat that ate the rat that lived ....

Wanner, E. & Maratsos, M. (1978). An ATN approach to comprehension. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan & G. A. Miller (eds), Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality. Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press.

.... of reanalysis Backtracking Overt backtracking Forward (Frazier Rayner, 1982; Lewis, 1993a) Backward (Frazier Rayner, 1982) Selective (Carpenter Daneman, 1981; Frazier Rayner, 1982; Ferreira Henderson, 1991; Inoue Fodor, 1995) Covert backtracking Forward Backward (Kaplan, 1972; Wanner Maratsos, 1978) Backward, reuse of well formed subphrases (Holbrook et al. 1992) Selective, limited memory (Blank, 1989) Selective, reuse of well formed subphrases (Abney, 1989; Konieczny, 1996) Parallel Parsing All paths parsing Ranked limited path parsing (Kurtzman, 1985; Gorrell, 1987) Multi path ....

Wanner, E. & Maratsos, M. 1978. An ATN approach to comprehension. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan, & G.A. Miller (eds.), Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 119-161.

....strings (such as digits) It is also a place where partially analyzed material is stored. There is good evidence that a sentence is divided into constituents in working memory (Clark and Clark, 1977:52) Clark and Clark cite the classic probe latency work of Ammon (1968) as such evidence. Wanner and Maratsos (1978) use the term transient memory for the store used in sentence comprehension and test whether a task involving remembering lists of names (a classic psychologist s working memory task) interferes with this transient memory; it does to some extent, and more at some points in sentences than others. ....

Wanner, Eric, and Maratsos, Michael. 1978. "An ATN approach to comprehension" In Halle, Morris, Bresnan, Joan, and Miller, George A. (eds) Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality 118-159. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

....sciences. Researchers trying to build cognitive models of language understanding have been puzzled by the architecture of the language understander which can produce the diverse behaviors observed in human language understanding, such as early commitment [Carpenter and Just, 1988; Frazier, 1987; Wanner and Maratsos, 1978] garden paths [Crain and Steedman, 1985] delayed decisions [Stowe, 1991] parsing breakdown [Lewis, 1992] and error recovery [Carpenter and Daneman, 1981; Eiselt, 1989; Eiselt and Holbrook, 1991] At the center of research on language understanding is an ongoing modularity debate whether the ....

....NP when it is preceded by the NP, that is, when the NP is already a complete NP. A grammar for a natural language can be represented in different ways. When represented simply as a set of rewrite rules, a grammar is suitable for a top down analysis as done by an augmented transition network (ATN) [Wanner and Maratsos, 1978; Woods, 1970; Woods, 1973] However, top down processing forces a sentence processor to make unnecessary commitments along the way with a consequent problem of frequent and wasteful backtracking that does not happen in human sentence processing behavior. One can perform a purely bottom up ....

E. Wanner and M. Maratsos. An ATN Approach to Comprehension. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G. A. Miller, editors, Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, pages 119--161. MIT Press, 1978.

.... trying to build cognitive models of language understanding have been puzzled by the architecture of the language understander which can produce the diverse behaviors in ambiguity resolution observed in human language understanding, such as early commitment (Carpenter and Just, 1988; Frazier, 1987; Wanner and Maratsos, 1978), garden paths (e.g. Crain and Steedman, 2 1985) delayed decisions (e.g. Stowe, 1991) parsing breakdown (e.g. Lewis, 1992) and error recovery (e.g. Carpenter and Daneman, 1981; Eiselt, 1989; Eiselt and Holbrook, 1991) Ambiguities are encountered throughout language analysis. For example, ....

Wanner, E. and Maratsos, M. (1978). An atn approach to comprehension. In Halle, M., Bresnan, J., and Miller, G. A., editors, Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, pages 119--161. MIT Press.

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