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1 online resource (xv, 220 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface ; Volume 30
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 30.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A model of production and interpretation of natural language utterances is developed which explains why communication is normally fast and successful. Interpretation is taken to be analogous with visual perception in finding the most probable hypothesis that explains the utterance. |
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Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One. Introduction; 1.1. Aristotelian Competence Grammars; 1.1.1. Against ACG: Ambiguity; 1.1.2. Against ACG: Time Complexity; 1.1.3. Against ACG: The Gap between Production and Interpretation; 1.2. Production Grammar; 1.2.1. The Primacy of Production; 1.3. Strategies for Coordination; 1.4. Bayesian Interpretation; 1.4.1. Simulated Production in Interpretation; 1.4.2. Mirror Neurons; 1.5. Conclusion; Coordination in Communication; Linear Production; Linear Interpretation; Bidirection in Production; Bidirection in Interpretation. |
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Explaining Simulated Production in InterpretationIncrementality of Interpretation; The Gap between Production and Interpretation; Precursors and Parity; 1.6. The Other Chapters; Chapter Two. Syntax; 2.1. Optimality Theory; 2.1.1. Reversing Production; 2.2. Optimality-Theoretic Syntax; 2.2.1. Optimality-Theoretic Syntax for Word Order in Dutch; 2.2.2. Provisional German; 2.2.3. Provisional English; 2.3. The Production Algorithm; 2.3.1. Procedural Interpretation of the Constraints; 2.4. Higher Level Generation; 2.5. Other Issues; 2.5.1. More Dutch; 2.5.2. A Worked Example. |
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2.5.3. Incremental Syntax Checking in Interpretation2.5.4. Quantification; 2.6. Conclusion; Chapter Three. Self-monitoringwrite indexwrite {75:self-monitoring}; 3.1. Optional Discourse Markers; 3.1.1. General Self-Monitoring; 3.2. Word Order Freezing; 3.3. Pronouns and Ellipsis; 3.4. Differential Case Marking; 3.5. A Case for Phonological Self-Monitoring?; 3.6. Conclusion; Chapter Four. Interpretation; 4.1. The Interpretation Algorithm; Concept Activation; Link Activation; Linked Concept in Context Activation; Matching; 4.2. Vision and Pragmatics; 4.2.1. Vision; 4.2.2. Other Cues. |
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4.2.3. PragmaticsIntonation; 4.2.4. Clark Buys Some Nails; 4.2.5. Scalar Implicatures; 4.2.6. Relevance Implicatures; 4.3. Conclusion; Jacobson's Principle; Lexicon; Aristotelian Grammar; Chapter Five. Mental Representation; 5.1. From Links to Representation Structures; 5.2. Logic; 5.2.1. Logical Operators; 5.3. Mental Representations in Philosophy; 5.4. Belief; Belief; 5.5. Definiteness; 5.6. Comparison with Discourse Semantics; 5.6.1. From Contexts into Discourse Representation Theory; 5.7. Conclusion; Chapter Six. Final Remarks; 6.1. Rounding Off; 6.2. Computational Linguistics; Goals. |
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6.3. Pragmatics6.4. Semantic Compositionality; 6.5. LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.0; PrOT 2.0; 6.6. Language Evolution; 6.7. Conceptual Glue; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Computational linguistics.
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Computational linguistics. |
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics. |
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Cognition.
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Cognition. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zeevat, Henk, 1952- Language production and interpretation. Leiden : Brill, 2014 9789004252899 (DLC) 2013043773 (OCoLC)862928880 |
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9789004252905 (electronic book) |
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9004252908 (electronic book) |
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9789004252899 |
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9004252894 |
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