Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics meets Cognition ( 1 )

Publication series :1

Author: Zeevat   Henk  

Publisher: Brill‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9789004252905

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004252899

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004252899

Subject: H087 mathematical linguistic

Language: ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Contents

pp.:  5 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.:  9 – 12

Preface

pp.:  13 – 16

Chapter One. Introduction

pp.:  17 – 52

1.1.1. Against ACG: Ambiguity

pp.:  21 – 23

1.2. Production Grammar

pp.:  27 – 32

1.4. Bayesian Interpretation

pp.:  35 – 42

1.4.2. Mirror Neurons

pp.:  42 – 42

1.5. Conclusion

pp.:  43 – 47

Coordination in Communication

pp.:  44 – 44

Linear Production

pp.:  45 – 44

Linear Interpretation

pp.:  45 – 44

Bidirection in Production

pp.:  45 – 44

Bidirection in Interpretation

pp.:  45 – 44

Precursors and Parity

pp.:  45 – 47

1.6. The Other Chapters

pp.:  48 – 52

Chapter Two. Syntax

pp.:  53 – 90

2.1. Optimality Theory

pp.:  55 – 60

2.1.1. Reversing Production

pp.:  58 – 60

2.2.2. Provisional German

pp.:  67 – 67

2.2.3. Provisional English

pp.:  68 – 70

2.3. The Production Algorithm

pp.:  71 – 76

2.4. Higher Level Generation

pp.:  77 – 79

2.5. Other Issues

pp.:  80 – 86

2.5.1. More Dutch

pp.:  80 – 81

2.5.2. A Worked Example

pp.:  82 – 82

2.5.4. Quantification

pp.:  85 – 86

2.6. Conclusion

pp.:  87 – 90

3.1. Optional Discourse Markers

pp.:  93 – 100

3.1.1. General Self-Monitoring

pp.:  96 – 100

3.2. Word Order Freezing

pp.:  101 – 105

3.3. Pronouns and Ellipsis

pp.:  106 – 108

3.4. Differential Case Marking

pp.:  109 – 111

3.6. Conclusion

pp.:  116 – 120

Chapter Four. Interpretation

pp.:  121 – 156

4.1. The Interpretation Algorithm

pp.:  125 – 135

Concept Activation

pp.:  131 – 131

Link Activation

pp.:  132 – 131

Matching

pp.:  133 – 135

4.2. Vision and Pragmatics

pp.:  136 – 150

4.2.1. Vision

pp.:  136 – 136

4.2.2. Other Cues

pp.:  137 – 138

4.2.3. Pragmatics

pp.:  139 – 144

Intonation

pp.:  145 – 146

4.2.4. Clark Buys Some Nails

pp.:  147 – 148

4.2.5. Scalar Implicatures

pp.:  149 – 149

4.2.6. Relevance Implicatures

pp.:  150 – 150

4.3. Conclusion

pp.:  151 – 156

Jacobson's Principle

pp.:  152 – 152

Lexicon

pp.:  153 – 153

Aristotelian Grammar

pp.:  154 – 156

5.2. Logic

pp.:  164 – 167

5.2.1. Logical Operators

pp.:  165 – 167

5.4. Belief

pp.:  174 – 180

Belief

pp.:  175 – 180

5.5. Definiteness

pp.:  181 – 192

5.7. Conclusion

pp.:  198 – 200

Chapter Six. Final Remarks

pp.:  201 – 224

6.1. Rounding Off

pp.:  201 – 201

6.2. Computational Linguistics

pp.:  202 – 208

Goals

pp.:  206 – 208

6.3. Pragmatics

pp.:  209 – 211

6.4. Semantic Compositionality

pp.:  212 – 212

6.5. LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.0

pp.:  213 – 217

PrOT 2.0

pp.:  216 – 217

6.6. Language Evolution

pp.:  218 – 219

6.7. Conceptual Glue

pp.:  220 – 224

Bibliography

pp.:  225 – 232

Index

pp.:  233 – 236

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