... to be and examines the main stages that led to the canonical theory of the 1980s. Finally, Section 3.3 shows how letting go of a sentence theory axiom allows the resolution of the anomaly of sentences with the verb to be, leading to a unified theory of copular sentences and ultimately to new...

... illustrates that locomotion exhibits striking symmetries. It shows that gait and speech rhythm involve the coordination of intricate behaviors by the central nervous system. It reveals that sentence structure is a striking instance of magnification symmetry in biology. This chapter also must be restrained...

... meaning; equilibrium semantics and illocutionary meaning; meaning and the Gricean properties; the interdependence of locutionary and illocutionary meanings; computing meaning; the garden path sentence; the universality of games of partial information; and the concept of strategic inference. Einstein...

...Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) allows semantically equivalent alternate surface derivations typified by the sentence “Harry admires Louise,” as well as English noun phrases, to have all of the type-raised categories allowed by a full-blown morphological case system. Many critics have argued...

...This chapter empirically investigates the issue of systematicity and connectionism under more realistic conditions than was the case in previous studies. A connectionist and a symbolic model of sentence processing are compared on their ability to perform systematically. Both models are trained...

...People use language to communicate their perceptions and conceptions of the world, and underlying this communication is the linguistic system that interacts with the human perceptual and conceptual machinery. This is supported by research on sentence comprehension among adults. This chapter...

...This chapter explores parsing and grammar in children, with an emphasis on how children resolve sentences with ambiguous scope. It focuses on an ambiguity involving the universal quantifier every in subject position along with a negated main predicate, as in the sentence “Every...

... of that type. Finally, the book considers an oft-overlooked problem for realism having to do with types occurring in other types (such as words in a sentence) and proposes an original solution, extending the discussion from words and expressions to other types that structurally involve other types (flags...

... structure of human language—the sentence—this book reconstructs this history. From classical Greece to the dueling masters of medieval logic through the revolutionary geniuses from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment, and finally to the twentieth century—when linguistics became a driving force...

... current General Electric Corporation Thomas Alva Edison Menlo Park phonograph arc lights platinum bulb death sentence newspapers One of Thomas Edison’s first inventions at Menlo Park was also his most novel. In 1877 a working model of a phonograph was constructed in accordance with Edison’s...

...This book, a collection of work presented in a special session at the Sixteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing held in 2003, focuses on language processing and language acquisition. It addresses a variety of questions related to linguistic reference, an active area of research...

...This chapter examines antecedent accessibility and salience within the framework of Centering Theory, based on the traditional accessibility/salience hierarchy for referential forms. In particular, it explores the effects of complex sentence structure on topichood, subjecthood, and pronominal...

...This chapter examines the neurocognition of language comprehension by using a broad-coverage model in combination with neuropsychological data on sentence processing. It first looks at the main language-relevant waveforms on recording of event-related potentials (ERPs) before discussing...