Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing

Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing

Research on syntactic ambiguity resolution in language comprehension has shown that subjects’ processing decisions are influenced by a variety of heterogeneous factors such as e.g. syntactic complexity, semantic fit and the discourse frequency of the competing structures. The present paper investigates a further potentially relevant factor in such processes: effects of syntagmatic lexical chunk...

Lexical and phonological effects on syntactic processing: Evidence from syntactic priming

We investigated whether phonological relationships at the lexical level affect syntactic encoding during sentence production. Cleland and Pickering (2003) showed that syntactic priming effects are enhanced by semantic, but not phonological relations between lexical items, suggesting that there are no effects of phonology on syntactic encoding. Here we report four experiments investigating the i...

Electrophysiological signatures of event words: Dissociating syntactic and semantic category effects in lexical processing.

Numerous theories have been proposed regarding the brain's organization and retrieval of lexical information. Neurophysiological dissociations in processing different word classes, particularly nouns and verbs, have been extensively documented, supporting the contribution of grammatical class to lexical organization. However, the contribution of semantic properties to these processing differenc...

Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views

This paper describes a semantic role labeling system that uses features derived from different syntactic views, and combines them within a phrase-based chunking paradigm. For an input sentence, syntactic constituent structure parses are generated by a Charniak parser and a Collins parser. Semantic role labels are assigned to the constituents of each parse using Support Vector Machine classifier...

Hierarchial chunking in sentence processing