By common definition, emergence means “to come forth from concealment or
obscurity”(Webster's Dictionary). In the context of this book, emergence also implies “without …

This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It
deals with the central areas of this field, the language abilities of the linguistically mature …

A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural
language processing applications. In Ontological Semantics, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor …

The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in
sentences like'John wants to leave'are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes …

The issue of completeness in adult second language acquisition is critical in the
development of a theory of second language acquisition. Assuming the Chomskyan …

I should clarify at the outset what I mean by the term parser. I take this to refer specifically to
tht: structure building system that it used in sentence recognition, and not to the many other …

Four experiments studied the comprehension of sentences with relations between empty
positions and phrases displaced from these positions (“gaps” and'fillers). Evidence from self …

How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the
complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language …

This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the
boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language …

This thesis gives a theory of sentence comprehension that attempts to explain a number of
linguistic performance effects, including garden-path effects, preferred readings for …