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UG and External Systems
Language, brain and computation
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This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as asymmetries in the structure of syllables and feet. The Brain section discusses questions related to human learning and comprehension of language: the acquisition of compounds, the acquisition of the definite article, the subject/object asymmetry in the comprehension of D-Linked vs. non D-linked questions, the evidence for syntactic asymmetries in American Sign Language, the acquisition of syllable types, and the role of stress shift in the determination of phrase ending. The papers in the Computation section present different perspectives on how the properties of UG can be implemented in a parser; implementations of different theories including configurational selection, incorporation, and minimalism; and the role of statistical and quantitative approaches in natural language processing.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction: UG and External SystemsAnna Maria Di Sciullo | pp. vii–xviii
- Language
- Depictives: Syntactic and interpretive asymmetriesDaniela Isac | pp. 3–26
- On two issues related to the clitic clusters in Romance languagesStanca Somesfalean | pp. 27–53
- On the question of (non)-agreement in the uses of Russian imperativesEdit Jakab | pp. 55–72
- Computational puzzles of conditional clause preposingNicola Munaro | pp. 73–94
- Clefts and tense asymmetriesManuela Ambar | pp. 95–127
- Generating configurational asymmetries in prosodic phonologyEvan W. Mellander | pp. 128–151
- Brain
- Language learnability and the forms of recursionThomas Roeper and William Snyder | pp. 155–169
- The autonomous contribution of syntax and pragmatics to the acquisition of the Hebrew definite articleSharon Armon-Lotem and Idit Avram | pp. 171–183
- D(iscourse)-Linking and question formation: Comprehension effects in children and Broca's aphasicsHelen Goodluck | pp. 185–192
- Evidence from ASL and ÖGS for asymmetries in UGRonnie B. Wilbur | pp. 193–212
- Acquisition of phonological empty categories: A case study of early child DutchNing Pan and William Snyder | pp. 213–222
- Prosodic cues during online processing of speech: Evidence from stress shift in American EnglishMatt Bauer | pp. 223–243
- Computation
- Morpho-syntax parsingAnna Maria Di Sciullo and Sandiway Fong | pp. 247–268
- A Minimalist implementation of Hale-Keyser incorporation theorySourabh Niyogi and Robert C. Berwick | pp. 269–288
- Minimalist languages and the correct prefix propertyHenk Harkema | pp. 289–310
- Computation with probes and goals: A parsing perspectiveSandiway Fong | pp. 311–333
- Deep & shallow linguistically based parsing: Parameterizing ambiguity in a hybrid parserRodolfo Delmonte | pp. 335–374
- Towards a quantitative theory of variabilityPhilippe Blache | pp. 375–388
- Index | pp. 389–395
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Di Sciullo, Anna Maria
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