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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:18:12
From: Stephanie Paalvast [paalvast at brill.com]
Subject: Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics meets Cognition: Zeevat

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Title: Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics meets
Cognition 
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/crispi 


Author: Henk Zeevat

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004252899 Pages: 236 Price: Europe EURO 98
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004252899 Pages: 236 Price: U.S. $ 127


Abstract:

An utterance is normally produced by a speaker in linear time and the hearer
normally correctly identifies the speaker intention in linear time and
incrementally. This is hard to understand in a standard competence grammar
since languages are highly ambiguous and context-free parsing is not linear.
Deterministic utterance generation from intention and n-best Bayesian
interpretation, based on the production grammar and the prior probabilities
that need to be assumed for other perception do much better. The proposed
model uses symbolic grammar and derives symbolic semantic representations, but
treats interpretation as just another form of perception. Removing
interpretation from grammar is not only empirically motivated, but also makes
linguistics a much more feasible enterprise.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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