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Cokal, Derya; Filik, Ruth; Sturt, Patrick; Poesio, Massimo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Foreign Countries
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Dubey, Amit; Keller, Frank; Sturt, Patrick – Cognition, 2008
Work in experimental psycholinguistics has shown that the processing of coordinate structures is facilitated when the two conjuncts share the same syntactic structure [Frazier, L., Munn, A., & Clifton, C. (2000). "Processing coordinate structures." "Journal of Psycholinguistic Research," 29(4) 343-370]. In the present paper, we argue that this…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Models, English
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Sturt, Patrick; Crocker, Matthew W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Demonstrates how the definition of "simple attachment" and "tree lowering," operations related to the grammatical composition operations of "substitution" and "adjunction" in the Tree Adjoining Grammar formalism, yields a parser more constrained than previous description theory based models. The article…
Descriptors: Coherence, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams