[HPSG-L] Highly ambiguous sentences with lots of quantifier scoipings and psycholinguistic work on underspeification

[Rui Chaves]

There’s also the anecdotal fact that people who read a 80-word sentence in a newspaper don’t spend 30 minutes parsing it.

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Rui P. Chaves (he/him)
Chair and Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics Program
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/


From: Rui Chaves <rchaves at buffalo.edu>
Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
To: Roussanka Loukanova <rloukanova at gmail.com>, Stefan Müller <St.Mueller at hu-berlin.de>
Cc: hpsg-l at listserv.linguistlist.org <HPSG-L at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [HPSG-L] Highly ambiguous sentences with lots of quantifier scoipings and psycholinguistic work on underspeification
Dear Stefan,
There is evidence that comprehenders don’t compute all scopings:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081461


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Rui P. Chaves (he/him)
Chair and Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics BS and MS Programs
University at Buffalo, SUNY
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/



From: HPSG-L <hpsg-l-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Roussanka Loukanova <rloukanova at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
To: Stefan Müller <St.Mueller at hu-berlin.de>
Cc: hpsg-l at listserv.linguistlist.org <HPSG-L at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [HPSG-L] Highly ambiguous sentences with lots of quantifier scoipings and psycholinguistic work on underspeification
Hi Stefan,
Hi Everyone,

Your questions are extra interesting. I'm very much interested in the
answers.

And, of course, I'm looking forward to your revised HPSG book!

I work on Type Theory of Recursion, including its varieties of Type Theory
of Acyclic Recursion / Algorithms (TTAR / TTAA). TTAR provides
mathematical  and algorithmic foundations of Syntax-Semantics (SynSem) in
Computational Grammars (CompGrs).

The relational extensions of TTAA to Dependent-Type Theory of Situated Info
(DTTSI) directly provides math, i.e., algorithmic foundations, of  MRS and
its SynSem in HPSG.

In all the versions of  TTAR / TTAA and DTTSI, I include underspecification.

Best Regards,
Roussanka


On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 12:22, Stefan Müller <St.Mueller at hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I remember that people working with the grammar matrix and large scale
> implementations reported natural occurring sentence with an enormous
> amount of readings. Something in the range of 100.000 scopings. Is this
> documented somewhere in print?
>
> Is there psycholinguistic research showing that humans do not work with
> specific readings but leave scopings underspecified (maybe to a certain
> extend).
>
> I am revising my HPSG textbook and switching to MRS in this book now, so
> I am interested in this kind of information.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best wishes
>
>      Stefan
>
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