Construal. - FRAZIER, LYN. CLIFTON, CHARLES.
KORTE INHOUD
Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limitedtype of underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably beenthe dominant theory of parsing (the garden-path theory developed by Lyn Frazier and colleagues)through the 1980s into new and previously unexplored domains, and greatly advances the potential forinsights into how meaning is both made and understood.Frazier and Clifton, both pioneers in parsingtheory, present new psycholinguistic theory and experimentation concerning how "nonprimary" phrasesare analyzed in sentence comprehension. They define a process of "construal" and show how itaccounts for cases in which the parser does not fully determine structure during the course ofordinary comprehension.The idea of construal arises in part through the authors' critical review ofthe challenges to their established framework for research on structural parsing. While theydemonstrate that the principles of parsing theory remain valid for a wide...
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1996Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.230 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0262061791ISBN-13: 9780262061797Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Orig. cloth. With dustjacket. x,230 pp.; 24 cm. Text in English. - (previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. ¶ 'A Bradford book.'. [Construal.]
