Syntactic Processing

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1. Questions

1.2. The functional architecture of the linguistic mind

1.3. Minimal attachment

1.4. Ambiguity resolution and beyond: the oracle component of parsing

2. Modifier adjunction with special reference to relative clauses inside complex NPs

2.1. Introduction: local adjunction

2.2. Relative clause adjunction

2.3. The adjunction of subject relative clauses to complex noun phrases

2.3.1. Computationally cheap trees: The Garden Path model

2.3.2. The role of frequency: Tuning

2.3.3. A refined two-step account: Construal

2.3.4. The role of segmentation, prosody and silent reading: the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis

2.3.5. Going for the meaning directly: the role of lexical semantics, coherence and reference

2.3.6. All at once in one stage: the Constraint Satisfaction Approach

2.3.7. The Unrestricted Race model (URM) and the ambiguity advantage effect (AAE)

2.3.8. Grillo and Costa (2014): the Pseudo Relative confound

2.4. Conclusions

3. Agreement

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Agreement attraction

3.2.1. Psycholinguistic theories of agreement

3.2.1.1. Maximal Input

3.2.1.2. Marking and Morphing

3.2.1.3. The cue-based Working Memory Model: retrieval in production

3.2.1.4. The scope of planning + semantic integration account

3.2.1.5. On morphology

3.2.1.6. Attraction in comprehension

3.3. More on comprehension: agreement in brain waves

3.4. Summing up

4. Gap filling

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Working memory

4.3. Recent fillers: controlled PRO and gap-driven parsing

4.4. Filler-driven parsing: the Active Filler Strategy

4.5. Scrambling the word order predictability: the Minimal Chain Principle

4.6. Summary and conclusions

4.7. Epilogue, or when gaps are too radical and reference must be explicit: anaphor resolution.

5. On parsers and grammars

5.1. Introduction: on psychological adequacy

5.2. The Separate Grammar Hypothesis: heuristics and good-enough, goal-directed, predictive processing

5.3. The Grammatical Parser Hypothesis: the parser is the grammar

5.4. Grammatical Illusions

5.5. On flexibility and opportunism

References

Index