Rhythmic parsing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344135 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerrit Kentner (0000-0002-9193-484X, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-155 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2016-0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4210948574 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
A controlled reading experiment reveals that stress-based linguistic rhythm impinges on syntactic ambiguity resolution in silent and oral reading. The results suggest that, at points of syntactic underspecification, the accruing prosodic representation may affect even the earliest stages of structure building, viz. the analysis of syntactic features of an ambiguous word. Such an effect remains inexplicable in the context of (psycho-)linguistic theories that assume a strictly unidirectional relationship between syntactic and phonological processes, the latter merely interpreting the conditions the syntactic component imposes on it. Here, a performance compatible grammar in the framework of Optimal Parsing is presented that is capable of capturing the reading data. The model integrates syntactic parsing and prosodification in reading and predicts that, at points of syntactic indetermination, weak prosodic constraints alone may guide syntactic structure assignment. This suggests a bidirectional relationship between syntax and phonology in grammar and processing while, at the same time, confirming a tight coupling of language production and comprehension
Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Parsing · Phonology · Syntax · Underspecification · Computer Science · History · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
Semantic Influences On Parsing
Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (and Other Constraints) in On-line Sentence Comprehension
The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution.
The Time Course of Syntactic Activation During Language Processing
The persistence of structural priming
The Contributions of Verb Bias and Plausibility to the Comprehension of Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences
Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing
The TRACE model of speech perception
Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension?
The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences
Learning Constraint Subhierarchies
Prosodic planning while reading aloud
Learning To Parse
Recycling Prosodic Boundaries
Empirical evidence for a deletion formulation of the rhythm rule in English
Empirical Tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm
Focus Projection and Prosodic Prominence in Nested Foci
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |