Reanalysis in Sentence Processing

By: J. Fodor (Editor), Fernanda Ferreira (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 October 1998

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The topic addressed in this volume lies within the study of sentence processing, which is one of the major divisions of psycholinguistics. The goal has been to understand the structure and functioning of the mental mechanisms involved in sentence comprehension. Most of the experimental and theoretical work during the last twenty or thirty years has focused on 'first-pass parsing', the process of assigning structure to a sentence as its words are encountered, one at a time, 'from left to right' . One important guiding idea has been to delineate the processing mechanisms by studying where they fai!. For this purpose we identify types of sentences which perceivers have trouble assigning structure to. An important class of perceptually difficult senten ces are those which contain temporary ambiguities. Since the parsing mechanism cannot tell what the intended structure is, it may make an incorrect guess. Then later on in the sentence, the structure assignment process breaks down, because the later words do not fit with the incorrect structural analysis. This is called a 'garden path' situation. When it occurs, the parsing mechanism must somehow correct itself, and find a different analysis which is compatible with the incoming words. This reanalysis process is the subject of the research reported here.

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List of Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Prosodic influences on reading syntactically ambiguous sentences	p. 1
Introduction
Phonological coding and syntactic ambiguity resolution
Focus particles and syntactic ambiguity
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Experiment 3
General discussion
Reanalysis aspects of movements	p. 47
Introduction
Differences between types of wh-dependencies
The Italian processing data
Conclusions from the Italian experiments
Some evidence on processing wh-questions in English
Conclusions
Syntactic reanalysis, thematic processing, and sentence comprehension	p. 73
Introduction
General issues of reanalysis
Ferreira and Henderson's (1991a, 1991b) model of reanalysis
Our current model of reanalysis
Summary of the new model
Attach Anyway	p. 101
Background
Attach Anyway and Adjust
The Grammatical Dependency Principle
The Thematic Overlay Effect
Capture and theft
Conclusion
Sentence reanalysis, and visibility	p. 143
Introduction
Reanalysis cost
Reanalysis preferences
Visibility
Why visibility
Conclusions
Diagnosis and reanalysis: Two processing aspects the brain may differentiate	p. 177
Introduction
The processing view of revision
Language processing in ERP
Processing subject-first and object-first structures
The data
The late positivity
Conclusion
Syntactic analysis and reanalysis in sentence processing	p. 201
First pass as prelude
Syntax
The parser
Right Association and Locality
Diagnosis and Structural Determinism
Summary
Reanalysis and limited repair parsing: Leaping off the garden path	p. 247
Introduction
Reanalysis as a functional requirement
Four theories of reanalysis
Limited cue-driven repair
Toward a complete theory of garden path effects
Conclusion
A computational model of recovery	p. 287
Introduction
The grammar
Elementary parsing operations
Ambiguity resolution
Recovery
Discussion and conclusions
Hierarchical Dependency Grammar
Parsing as incremental restructuring	p. 327
Introduction
Competition and restructuring
Modeling reanalysis
Discussion
Conclusions
Generalized monotonicity for reanalysis models	p. 365
Introduction
What is reanalysis?
Accounting for constraints on reanalysis
The monotonicity framework
A general definition of monotonicity
Reflections on the monotonicity framework
Concluding remarks
Index	p. 401
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