This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational
linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of …

This paper describes a new addition to the family of parsing models based on the principles
of Description Theory (Marcus, Hindle, & Fleck, 1983). We demonstrate how the definition of …

An account of grammatical acquisition is developed within the parameter setting framework
applied to a generalized categorial grammar (GCG). The GCG is embedded in a default …

Parsing sentences into syntax trees can benefit downstream applications in NLP. Transition-
based parsers build trees by executing actions in a state transition system. They are …

In this paper we develop novel algorithmic ideas for building a natural language parser
grounded upon the hypothesis of incrementality. Although widely accepted and …

This thesis combines theoretical, computational and experimental techniques in the study of
reanalysis in human sentence comprehension. We begin by surveying the main claims of …

Human language capabilities are based on mental proceduresthat are closely linked to the
time domain. Listening, understanding, and reacting, on the one hand, as well as planning …

• In the Middle Ages, the close interaction with the Islamic world through Moorish culture in
Southern Europe on the one hand, and the use of Hebrew by Jews all over Europe on the …

Incremental parsing with a context free grammar produces partial syntactic structures for an
initial fragment on the word-by-word basis. Owing to the syntactic ambiguity, however, too …

In incremental parsing, infinite local ambiguity occurs when the input word can be combined
with the syntactic structure built so far in a infinite number of ways. A common example is left …