Relative clauses as a benchmark for Minimalist parsing
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A Refined Notion of Memory Usage for Minimalist Parsing
Recently there has been a lot of interest in testing the processing predictions of a specific top-down parser for Minimalist grammars (Stabler, 2013). Most of this work relies on memory-based difficulty metrics that relate the shape of the parse tree to processing behavior. We show that none of the difficulty metrics proposed so far can explain why subject relative clauses are more easily proce...
متن کاملSubject Preference in the Processing of Relative Clauses in Chinese
A controversy in the sentence processing literature regarding relative-clause processing was raised by Hsiao and Gibson’s (2003) study of Chinese relative clauses. Their study suggested that, contrary to the patterns found in all other languages, Chinese relative clauses showed a processing preference for object extractions. This result posed a challenge to sentence processing theories that att...
متن کاملMinimalist Parsing of Subjects Displaced from Embedded Clauses in Free Word Order Languages
In Sayeed and Szpakowicz (2004), we proposed a parser inspired by some aspects of the Minimalist Program. This incremental parser was designed specifically to handle discontinuous constituency phenomena for NPs in Latin. We take a look at the application of this parser to a specific kind of apparent island violation in Latin involving the extraction of constituents, including subjects, from ten...
متن کاملUncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages
The processing difficulty profile for relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean represents a challenge for theories of human parsing.We address this challenge using a grammar-based complexitymetric, one that reflects aminimalist analysis of relative clauses for all three languages as well as structure-dependent corpus distributions. Together, these define a comprehender’s degree of uncer...
متن کاملRelative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L1 and L2: Are Processing Strategies Transferred?
This study aims at investigating whether Persian native speakers highly advanced in English as a second language (L2ers) can switch to optimal processing strategies in the languages they know and whether working memory capacity (WMC) plays a role in this respect. To this end, using a self-paced reading task, we examined the processing strategies 62 Persian speaking proficient L2ers used to read...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Language Modelling
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017