The roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study...

In this paper, I critically examine Kurt Gödel’s argument against the syntactic interpretation of mathematics. While main aim is to analyze argument, also wish underscore relevance original elements philosophical thought. The paper consists four parts. first part, introduce reader philosophy. second reconstruct formalist stance in philosophy mathematics, which object criticism. third sketch his...

We discuss the hypothesis that the debate about the interpretation of the orthodox formalism of quantum mechanics (QM) might have been misguided right from the start by a biased metaphysical interpretation of the formalism and its inner mathematical relations. In particular, we focus on the orthodox interpretation of the congruence relation, ‘=’, which relates equivalent classes of different ma...

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about how other aspects of gesture, such as emphasis, influence the interpretation of the syntactic relations in a spoken message. Here, we investigated...

Two experiments investigated the interaction of intonation boundaries and verb bias during spoken language comprehension in English. An online cross-modal naming task proved to be sensitive to the interaction of prosodic, syntactic, and semantic representations during resolution of a temporary syntactic closure ambiguity (e.g., Whenever the lady checks the room...). The results supported previo...

The paper looks at size nouns of the type grămadă ‘heap / pile’ in Romanian and classifies them into two categories: with a comparative interpretation (Doetjes Rooryck 2003) quantifying (Brems 2007; 2010), latter reading being sometimes contextually extended to third interpretation, negative evaluation 2010). major types readings that may have are read off head-complement syntactic structure, t...

The exact nature of the similarity that must obtain between antecedent and ellipsis site has been under debate. Intuitively, it is a condition associated with recoverability: when a VP-gap is encountered, a VP representation from the preceding context must be interpreted in the empty VP position1. Syntactic identity has been argued for based on sentences where syntactic non-identity results in ...

The contribution of prosody to the interpretation of temporary syntactic ambiguity was examined for young and elderly listeners using a sentence-completion task. Temporary syntactic ambiguity refers to cases where it may be temporarily unclear whether a syntactic clause boundary has or has not been reached based on what has been heard in the sentence to that point. Results suggest that both you...

We consider the idea of defining syntactic structure relative to a language, rather than to a grammar for a language. This allows us to define a notion of hierarchical structure that is independent of the particular grammar, and that depends rather on the properties of various algebraic structures canonically associated with a language. Our goal is not necessarily to recover the traditional ide...

This paper argues that case and inner aspect are independent syntactic relations. In particular I argue that there is no direct syntactic relation between the appearance of accusative case on the direct object and a telic interpretation of a predicate. I argue that accusative case is an Agree relation with v° and aspect is an Agree relation with Asp°, an aspectual head between vP and VP respons...