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

[Nuttanart Muansuwan]

Dear Stefan and all,

You mentioned MRS. I would like to share that I used the attribute HNDL in which is used MRS to identify the predication that a linguistic element encodes, to model scope relations among Tense and Aspect markers in Thai (in my dissertation year 2002). Since there can be many tense and aspect markers in a Thai sentence, there can potentially be numerous ambiguities. I assume that an aspect morpheme takes as its semantic argument (i.e. takes as the value of its ARG attribute) the HNDL value of the constituent it has scope over. Under this assumption, scope relations can be (somewhat) straightforwardly modeled.

Best regards,
Nuttanart Muansuwan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, CPE King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi  Other E-mail: nuttanart.mua at mail.kmutt.ac.th
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Subject: [HPSG-L] Highly ambiguous sentences with lots of quantifier scoipings and psycholinguistic work on underspeification

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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