Syntax and Parsing (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

By Paul Gorrell

Book Overview

In this examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, Paul Gorrell argues for a distinct processing component that is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and that utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a GovernmentSHBinding grammar. He contrasts the primary and secondary relations in a phrase-structure tree, and shows how this distinction is reflected in the internal structure of the parser, a model that can also predict garden-path phenomena in the processing of verb-final clauses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521452821
• ISBN13: 9780521452823
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"