Janet Dean Fodor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 744899 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janet Dean Fodor |
| NOMBRES | Janet Dean |
| APELLIDO | Fodor |
| FIRMA | FODOR J D |
| AFILIACIONES | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Timing of Syntactic and Rhythmic Effects on Ambiguity Resolution in Turkish
It has been shown that speakers use prosodic cues to disambiguate the syntactic structure of a sentence and listeners are sensitive to such cues. But the distribution of prosodic boundaries has been reported to depend on the lengths of constituents as well as the syntactic structure of utterances. Hence, it is possible that listeners are sensitive to these alternative reasons (i.e., syntactic or length-related) for why a speaker might introduce a…
Phrase Lengths and the Perceived Informativeness of Prosodic Cues in Turkish
It is known from previous studies that in many cases (though not all) the prosodic properties of a spoken utterance reflect aspects of its syntactic structure, and also that in many cases (though not all) listeners can benefit from these prosodic cues. A novel contribution to this literature is the Rational Speaker Hypothesis (RSH), proposed by Clifton, Carlson and Frazier. The RSH maintains that listeners are sensitive to possible reasons for wh…
Phrase Length and Prosody in On-Line Ambiguity Resolution
The Subset Principle in syntax
Following Hale & Reiss' paper on the Subset Principle (SP) in phonology, we draw attention here to some unsolved problems in the application of SP to syntax acquisition. While noting connections to formal results in computational linguistics, our focus is on how SP could be implemented in a way that is both linguistically well-grounded and psychologically feasible. We concentrate on incremental learning (with no memory for past inputs), which is …
Understanding stimulus poverty arguments
The argument from the poverty of the stimulus as Pullum and Scholz define it (their APS) is undeniably true, given that all language learners acquire the ability to generate more sentences of the target language than they have heard. Uniformity across learners with respect to the additional sentences they project suggests that grammar induction is guided by general principles, which must be innate. What remains to be established is exactly which …
Parameters and the periphery
Peter W. Culicover , Syntactic nuts: hard cases, syntactic theory, and language acquisition . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 244
Garden Path Repair
Meng and Bader(2000b)have shown that for garden-path repair in German, case is a more effective cue than number. They argue that sensitivity to the nature of the cue supports a diagnosis model of garden path repair such as we have proposed. However, in making this argument Meng and Bader introduced a new notion of diagnosis. Retaining the original "basic" diagnosis system,they added a new function that we call t riage. Triage determines the proba…
Syntactic Features in Reanalysis
Parsing to Learn
Learning To Parse
Anomaly Detection
Unambiguous Triggers
Triggers for parameter setting may be ambiguous. Strategies for dealing with ambiguity include guessing, parallel processing, and waiting for unambiguous input. The Trigger Learning Algorithm of Gibson and Wexler (1994) is a guessing system. Gibson and Wexler show that under some reasonable assumptions it may never attain the target grammar. I propose instead a deterministic device that waits for unambiguous triggers to set parameters. This learn…
Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
The diagnosis and cure of garden paths
Contextual information and temporal terms
We report an experiment designed to identify how contextual information can influence children's performance on an experimental task involving temporal terms. Grain (1982) reported improved performance on a comprehension task when subjects were provided with contextual information, and he suggested that the improvement was due to satisfaction of presuppositions. However, this contextual information might have served to simplify task demands by pr…
On modularity in syntactic processing
Constraints on gaps
Referential and quantificational indefinites
Semantics
Buku ini berisi hasil survey tentang teori-teori makna atau semantik yang dilakukan oleh penulis sendiri. Dengan demikian, buku ini berupa buku teori yang mengangkat persoalan-persoalan teoretis seperti pertanyaan tentang makna, teori semantik dalam linguistik, pemetaan antara struktur sintaksis dan semantik, serta tentang representasi semantik
The sausage machine
Like subject verbs and causal clauses in English
Perlmutter claimed (Perlmutter, 1968) that the like subject constraint in English is a deep structure constraint. Apart from being a contribution to a theory of filtering devices in natural languages, this claim is of interest because it is based on the assignment of abstract deep structures containing causal clauses which do not appear in surface structure. For example, Perlmutter proposed deriving the sentence: (1) ( = (7)) I tried to be arrest…
La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques
Fodor Janet Dean, Bever T.G. La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 83-90
La signification peut-elle être une Rm
Fodor Janet Dean. La signification peut-elle être une Rm-?. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 50-60
Learning To Parse
The diagnosis and cure of garden paths
Unambiguous Triggers
Triggers for parameter setting may be ambiguous. Strategies for dealing with ambiguity include guessing, parallel processing, and waiting for unambiguous input. The Trigger Learning Algorithm of Gibson and Wexler (1994) is a guessing system. Gibson and Wexler show that under some reasonable assumptions it may never attain the target grammar. I propose instead a deterministic device that waits for unambiguous triggers to set parameters. This learn…
Parsing to Learn
Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly
Syntactic Features in Reanalysis
Anomaly Detection
The Subset Principle in syntax
Following Hale & Reiss' paper on the Subset Principle (SP) in phonology, we draw attention here to some unsolved problems in the application of SP to syntax acquisition. While noting connections to formal results in computational linguistics, our focus is on how SP could be implemented in a way that is both linguistically well-grounded and psychologically feasible. We concentrate on incremental learning (with no memory for past inputs), which is …
Parameters and the periphery
Peter W. Culicover , Syntactic nuts: hard cases, syntactic theory, and language acquisition . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 244
On modularity in syntactic processing
Phrase Lengths and the Perceived Informativeness of Prosodic Cues in Turkish
It is known from previous studies that in many cases (though not all) the prosodic properties of a spoken utterance reflect aspects of its syntactic structure, and also that in many cases (though not all) listeners can benefit from these prosodic cues. A novel contribution to this literature is the Rational Speaker Hypothesis (RSH), proposed by Clifton, Carlson and Frazier. The RSH maintains that listeners are sensitive to possible reasons for wh…
Garden Path Repair
Meng and Bader(2000b)have shown that for garden-path repair in German, case is a more effective cue than number. They argue that sensitivity to the nature of the cue supports a diagnosis model of garden path repair such as we have proposed. However, in making this argument Meng and Bader introduced a new notion of diagnosis. Retaining the original "basic" diagnosis system,they added a new function that we call t riage. Triage determines the proba…
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
Phrase Length and Prosody in On-Line Ambiguity Resolution
La signification peut-elle être une Rm
Fodor Janet Dean. La signification peut-elle être une Rm-?. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 50-60
La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques
Fodor Janet Dean, Bever T.G. La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 83-90
La signification peut-elle être une Rm
Fodor Janet Dean. La signification peut-elle être une Rm-?. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 50-60
Like subject verbs and causal clauses in English
Perlmutter claimed (Perlmutter, 1968) that the like subject constraint in English is a deep structure constraint. Apart from being a contribution to a theory of filtering devices in natural languages, this claim is of interest because it is based on the assignment of abstract deep structures containing causal clauses which do not appear in surface structure. For example, Perlmutter proposed deriving the sentence: (1) ( = (7)) I tried to be arrest…
The sausage machine
Semantics
Buku ini berisi hasil survey tentang teori-teori makna atau semantik yang dilakukan oleh penulis sendiri. Dengan demikian, buku ini berupa buku teori yang mengangkat persoalan-persoalan teoretis seperti pertanyaan tentang makna, teori semantik dalam linguistik, pemetaan antara struktur sintaksis dan semantik, serta tentang representasi semantik
Referential and quantificational indefinites
Constraints on gaps
On modularity in syntactic processing
Contextual information and temporal terms
We report an experiment designed to identify how contextual information can influence children's performance on an experimental task involving temporal terms. Grain (1982) reported improved performance on a comprehension task when subjects were provided with contextual information, and he suggested that the improvement was due to satisfaction of presuppositions. However, this contextual information might have served to simplify task demands by pr…
The diagnosis and cure of garden paths
Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
Parsing to Learn
Learning To Parse
Anomaly Detection
Unambiguous Triggers
Triggers for parameter setting may be ambiguous. Strategies for dealing with ambiguity include guessing, parallel processing, and waiting for unambiguous input. The Trigger Learning Algorithm of Gibson and Wexler (1994) is a guessing system. Gibson and Wexler show that under some reasonable assumptions it may never attain the target grammar. I propose instead a deterministic device that waits for unambiguous triggers to set parameters. This learn…
Garden Path Repair
Meng and Bader(2000b)have shown that for garden-path repair in German, case is a more effective cue than number. They argue that sensitivity to the nature of the cue supports a diagnosis model of garden path repair such as we have proposed. However, in making this argument Meng and Bader introduced a new notion of diagnosis. Retaining the original "basic" diagnosis system,they added a new function that we call t riage. Triage determines the proba…
Syntactic Features in Reanalysis
Parameters and the periphery
Peter W. Culicover , Syntactic nuts: hard cases, syntactic theory, and language acquisition . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 244
Understanding stimulus poverty arguments
The argument from the poverty of the stimulus as Pullum and Scholz define it (their APS) is undeniably true, given that all language learners acquire the ability to generate more sentences of the target language than they have heard. Uniformity across learners with respect to the additional sentences they project suggests that grammar induction is guided by general principles, which must be innate. What remains to be established is exactly which …
The Subset Principle in syntax
Following Hale & Reiss' paper on the Subset Principle (SP) in phonology, we draw attention here to some unsolved problems in the application of SP to syntax acquisition. While noting connections to formal results in computational linguistics, our focus is on how SP could be implemented in a way that is both linguistically well-grounded and psychologically feasible. We concentrate on incremental learning (with no memory for past inputs), which is …
Phrase Length and Prosody in On-Line Ambiguity Resolution
Phrase Lengths and the Perceived Informativeness of Prosodic Cues in Turkish
It is known from previous studies that in many cases (though not all) the prosodic properties of a spoken utterance reflect aspects of its syntactic structure, and also that in many cases (though not all) listeners can benefit from these prosodic cues. A novel contribution to this literature is the Rational Speaker Hypothesis (RSH), proposed by Clifton, Carlson and Frazier. The RSH maintains that listeners are sensitive to possible reasons for wh…
Timing of Syntactic and Rhythmic Effects on Ambiguity Resolution in Turkish
It has been shown that speakers use prosodic cues to disambiguate the syntactic structure of a sentence and listeners are sensitive to such cues. But the distribution of prosodic boundaries has been reported to depend on the lengths of constituents as well as the syntactic structure of utterances. Hence, it is possible that listeners are sensitive to these alternative reasons (i.e., syntactic or length-related) for why a speaker might introduce a…
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