Merlo P., Stevenson S. (eds.) The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing. Formal, Computational and Experimental Issues

Издательство John Benjamins Publishing, 2002, -369 pp.Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The focus of this stimulating volume is on a number of central topics: The discussion of foundational issues concerning the nature of the lexicon and its relationship to sentence understanding; the exploration of the relationship between syntactic and lexical processing; and the investigation of the specific content of lexical entries, especially for verbs. The authors draw on a range of methodologies, from computational modeling to corpus studies to behavioral and neuro-imaging experimental techniques. The breadth of topics and methodologies is brought together by the articulated, critical analysis of the field provided in the introduction. The research reported here elaborates both the structure and the probabilistic content of lexical representations, and meets up with work in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy on the relation between conceptual, grammatical, and statistical knowledge.Words, numbers and all that: The lexicon in sentence understanding
Part I: Fundamental issues
The lexicon in Optimality Theory
Optimality–theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar
The lexicon and the laundromat
Semantics in the spin cycle: Competence and performance criteria for the creation of lexical entries
Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing
Part II: Division of labour between syntax and the lexicon
A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging
Incrementality and lexicalism: A treebank study
Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms: The case fromlexical category disambiguation
Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension
The time course of information integration in sentence processing
Part III: Details of lexical entries
The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role in sentence and discourse understanding
Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses
Predicting thematic role assignments in context
Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases
Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities