SYNTAX and SEMANTICS

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Copyright

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CONTENTS

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CONTRIBUTORS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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FROM ALEXANDER TO WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT: A CROSSLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

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1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  19 – 20

2. WORD RECOGNITION

pp.：  21 – 22

3. FIXED EXPRESSIONS

pp.：  23 – 24

4. GRAMMATICAL CONSTRAINTS

pp.：  25 – 25

5. EMPTY CATEGORIES

pp.：  26 – 26

6. PARSING

pp.：  27 – 26

7. CONCLUSION

pp.：  27 – 27

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pp.：  28 – 27

REFERENCES

pp.：  28 – 28

LEXICAL AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION: LANGUAGES, TASKS, AND TIMING

pp.：  29 – 50

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  29 – 29

2. CONTEXT-DEPENDENT AND CONTEXT -INDEPENDENT MODELS

pp.：  30 – 31

3. NATURAL SPEECH COMPREHENSION

pp.：  32 – 34

4. LANGUAGE-DRIVEN DIFFERENCES

pp.：  35 – 36

5. EXPERIMENT: LEXICAL AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN MANDARIN CHINESE

pp.：  37 – 44

6. CONCLUSION

pp.：  45 – 46

REFERENCES

pp.：  47 – 50

CROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND SENTENCE PROCESSING: THE CASE OF CHINESE

pp.：  51 – 72

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  51 – 53

2. EXPERIMENT 1: SENTENCE INTERPRETATION

pp.：  54 – 81

3. RECOGNIZING INCONGRUITY AND REVISING THE INITIALCONSTRUAL: EXPERIMENT 2

pp.：  82 – 84

4. ECONOMY OF LISTENERS' REPAIR STRATEGIES

pp.：  85 – 85

REFERENCES

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COMPREHENSION REPAIR IN THE PROCESSING OF A SHORT ORAL DISCOURSE INVOLVING A LEXICALLY AMBIGUOUS WORD

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1. STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING LEXICAL AMBIGUITY

pp.：  74 – 74

2. REPAIRING COMPREHENSION: EXPERIMENT 1

pp.：  75 – 81

3. RECOGNIZING INCONGRUITY AND REVISING THE INITIALCONSTRUAL: EXPERIMENT 2

pp.：  82 – 84

4. ECONOMY OF LISTENERS' REPAIR STRATEGIES

pp.：  85 – 85

REFERENCES

pp.：  86 – 88

AMBIGUITY OF REANALYSIS IN PARSING COMPLEX SENTENCES IN JAPANESE

pp.：  89 – 112

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  89 – 89

2. EASY VERSUS DIFFICULT REANALYSIS

pp.：  90 – 91

3. PREVIOUS PROPOSALS

pp.：  92 – 93

4. Effect of Thematic Ambiguity of the Head Noun

pp.：  94 – 97

5. FURTHER EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

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6. DISCUSSION

pp.：  101 – 107

REFERENCES

pp.：  108 – 112

THE PROCESSING OF EMPTY SUBJECTS IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE

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1. INTRODUCTION

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2. PROCESSING OF EMPTY SUBJECTS IN ENGLISH

pp.：  114 – 115

3. PROCESSING OF EMPTY SUBJECTS IN JAPANESE

pp.：  116 – 117

4. COMPARISON OF ENGLISH AND JAPANESE

pp.：  118 – 119

5. THEMATIC HIERARCHY

pp.：  120 – 122

6. THETA-CHECKING STRATEGY

pp.：  123 – 124

7. MODELS OF THE HUMAN PARSER

pp.：  125 – 125

8. FINAL REMARKS

pp.：  126 – 130

THE PRODUCTION OF AGREEMENT IN ENGLISHAND JAPANESE: ANIMACY EFFECTS (OR LACK THEREOF)

pp.：  131 – 148

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  131 – 133

2. STUDIES OF AGREEMENT ERRORS

pp.：  134 – 143

3. GENERAL DISCUSSION

pp.：  144 – 144

REFERENCES

pp.：  145 – 148

CONTEXT-INDEPENDENT SENTENCE PROCESSING

pp.：  149 – 170

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  149 – 149

2. INVESTIGATING CONTEXT EFFECTS

pp.：  150 – 162

3. THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIMENTAL TASKS FOR INTERPRETING DATA

pp.：  163 – 163

4. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  164 – 164

REFERENCES

pp.：  165 – 170

THE INFLUENCE OF CANONICAL WORD ORDER ON STRUCTURAL PROCESSING

pp.：  171 – 184

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  171 – 171

2. BASIC ISSUES

pp.：  172 – 177

3. PROCESSING OF LONG-DISTANCE DEPENDENCIES IN ENGLISH

pp.：  178 – 179

4. A CROSSLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

pp.：  180 – 180

5. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION

pp.：  181 – 181

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pp.：  182 – 181

REFERENCES

pp.：  182 – 184

LEXICAL ACCESS AND COREFERENCE PROCESSING IN BULGARIAN

pp.：  185 – 200

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  185 – 185

2. BACKGROUND

pp.：  186 – 186

3. SOME SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE

pp.：  187 – 186

4. THE PROBLEM OF GAP FILLING AND CROSS-MODAL LEXICAL PRIMING

pp.：  187 – 195

5. DISCUSSION

pp.：  196 – 197

REFERENCES

pp.：  198 – 200

THE CONTRIBUTION OF WORD FORM AND MEANING TO LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN SPANISH: SOME EVIDENCE FROM MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL STUDIES

pp.：  201 – 228

1. INTRODUCTION

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2. ARE MORPHOLOGICAL RELATIONS REDUCIBLE TO FORM AND MEANING RELATIONSHIPS?

pp.：  204 – 211

3. HOW DO FORM AND MEANING CONTRIBUTE TO THE COGNATE EFFECTS IN BILINGUALS?

pp.：  212 – 216

4. IS THE COGNATE EFFECT A SPECIAL KIND OF MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECT?

pp.：  217 – 218

5. CONCLUDING REMARKS

pp.：  219 – 220

REFERENCES

pp.：  221 – 228

ACCOUNTING FOR CROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATION: A CONSTRAINT-BASED PERSPECTIVE

pp.：  229 – 244

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  229 – 229

2. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO CROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATION

pp.：  230 – 232

3. PRAGMATIC CONSTRAINT ON CROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATION

pp.：  233 – 235

4. THE CASE OF WORD ORDER AND GENITIVES

pp.：  236 – 239

5. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  240 – 240

REFERENCES

pp.：  241 – 244

THE TIME COURSE OF ATTACHMENTDECISIONS: EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH

pp.：  245 – 264

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  265 – 265

2. VERB AMBIGUITIES

pp.：  266 – 253

3. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE ATTACHMENT

pp.：  254 – 257

4. THE DYNAMICS OF ATTACHMENTS

pp.：  258 – 261

REFERENCES

pp.：  262 – 264

VERB PROCESSING IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH: AMBIGUITY, DISCONTINUOUS FORMS, AND THEMATIC COMPLEXITY

pp.：  265 – 282

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  265 – 265

2. VERB AMBIGUITIES

pp.：  266 – 267

3. DISCONTINUOUS VERB PARTICLE COMBINATIONS

pp.：  268 – 274

4. THEMATIC COMPLEXITY

pp.：  275 – 277

5. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  278 – 278

REFERENCES

pp.：  279 – 282

THE DIMENSIONAL CONCEPTION OF SPACE AND THE USE OF DIMENSIONAL PREPOSITIONS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

pp.：  283 – 310

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  283 – 284

2. DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS OF THE FIRST HORIZONTAL AXIS AND ITS POLES

pp.：  285 – 292

3. SOME DETERMINANTS OF ORIGO SETTING

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4. EXPERIMENTS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF "IN FRONT OF "AND "BEHIND" AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN GERMAN, DUTCH, ITALIAN, AND FRENCH

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5. A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPLANATION OF CROSSLINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES

pp.：  302 – 304

REFERENCES

pp.：  305 – 310

SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN GERMAN

pp.：  311 – 330

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  311 – 311

2. THE DIFFERENTIAL PERSPECTIVE

pp.：  312 – 313

3. PARALLEL CONSTRUCTIONS

pp.：  314 – 314

4. CONSTITUENT ORDERING

pp.：  315 – 316

5. CONSTITUENT ORDERING AND THE TIME COURSE OF PHRASE STRUCTURE BUILDING

pp.：  317 – 317

6. CONSTITUENT ORDER AND THEMATIC PROMINENCE

pp.：  318 – 319

7. ATTACHMENT AMBIGUITIES

pp.：  320 – 322

8. AN INTERMEDIATE SUMMARY

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9. LIMITS OF PARAMETRIZED HEAD ATTACHMENT

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10. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  326 – 326

REFERENCES

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CHALLENGES TO RECENT THEORIES OF CROSSLINGUISTIC VARIATION IN PARSING: EVIDENCE FROM DUTCH

pp.：  331 – 354

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  331 – 331

2. BACKGROUND

pp.：  332 – 332

3. A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CROSSLINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES

pp.：  333 – 335

4. THEORETICAL INTERPRETATIONS

pp.：  336 – 341

5. A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THESE PROPOSALS

pp.：  342 – 343

6. FURTHER EVIDENCE FROM DUTCH

pp.：  344 – 347

7. CONCLUSIONS FROM DUTCH

pp.：  348 – 348

8. OVERALL CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  349 – 349

REFERENCES

pp.：  350 – 354

SYNTACTICALLY BASED PARSING STRATEGIES: EVIDENCE FROM TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

pp.：  355 – 362

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  355 – 355

2. THE MINIMAL CHAIN PRINCIPLE

pp.：  356 – 356

3. THE MINIMAL CHAIN PRINCIPLE AND THE PROCESSING OF DECLARATIVE SENTENCES

pp.：  357 – 359

4.4. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  360 – 360

REFERENCES

pp.：  361 – 362

THE DEVELOPMENTOFSENTENCE COMPREHENSION IN ITALIAN AND SERBOCROATIAN: LOCAL VERSUS DISTRIBUTED CUES

pp.：  363 – 396

1. BACKGROUND

pp.：  364 – 366

2. OVERVIEW OF ITALIAN AND SERBO-CROATIAN GRAMMAR

pp.：  367 – 370

3. EXPERIMENT 1

pp.：  371 – 376

4. EXPERIMENT 2

pp.：  377 – 383

5. EXPERIMENT 3

pp.：  384 – 387

6. GENERAL DISCUSSION

pp.：  388 – 391

REFERENCES

pp.：  392 – 396

ROLE OF CONTEXT IN THE COMPREHENSION OF AMBIGUOUS ITALIAN IDIOMS

pp.：  397 – 422

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  397 – 398

2. THE COMPREHENSION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

pp.：  399 – 401

3. THE COMPREHENSION OF AMBIGUOUS IDIOMS IN AN OFF-LINE TASK: EXPERIMENT 1

pp.：  402 – 404

4. THE COMPREHENSION OF AMBIGUOUS IDIOMS IN ON-LINE TASKS: EXPERIMENTS 2 AND 3

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5. IMPLICATIONS FROM THE PRESENT DATA AND CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  418 – 419

REFERENCES

pp.：  420 – 422

COMPACTNESS AND CONCEPTUAL COMPLEXITY OF CONVENTIONALIZED AND CREATIVE METAPHORS IN ITALIAN

pp.：  423 – 444

1. INTRODUCTION

pp.：  423 – 424

2. METAPHOR COMPACTNESS

pp.：  425 – 433

3. INNOVATIVE METAPHORICAL DESCRIPTIONS

pp.：  434 – 436

4. CONVENTIONAL AND INNOVATIVE METAPHORS

pp.：  437 – 438

5. CONCLUSIONS

pp.：  439 – 439

REFERENCES

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INDEX

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