Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface : Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics Meets Cognition.

By: Zeevat, HenkMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004252905Subject(s): Cognition | Computational linguistics | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | SemanticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface : Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics Meets CognitionDDC classification: 006.3/5 LOC classification: P98 -- .Z33 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Explaining Simulated Production in Interpretation -- Incrementality 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 -- 2.5.3. Incremental Syntax Checking in Interpretation -- 2.5.4. 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.
4.2.3. Pragmatics -- Intonation -- 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 -- 6.3. Pragmatics -- 6.4. Semantic Compositionality -- 6.5. LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.0 -- PrOT 2.0 -- 6.6. Language Evolution -- 6.7. Conceptual Glue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Explaining Simulated Production in Interpretation -- Incrementality 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 -- 2.5.3. Incremental Syntax Checking in Interpretation -- 2.5.4. 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.

4.2.3. Pragmatics -- Intonation -- 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 -- 6.3. Pragmatics -- 6.4. Semantic Compositionality -- 6.5. LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.0 -- PrOT 2.0 -- 6.6. Language Evolution -- 6.7. Conceptual Glue -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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