On Sentence Interpretation

At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by the perceiver at the earliest conceiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frazier, Lyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 / Introduction
  • 2 / Discourse Dependent Interpretation and the Role of Mental Models
  • 3 / Sentence-Internal Interpretation: Limitations on Immediate Interpretation
  • 4 / Focus
  • 5 / Topics
  • 6 / Tripartite Structures and the Guided Use of Context
  • 7 / The Interpretation of DPS
  • 8 / Conclusions
  • References
  • Notes