The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Principle orders adjectives and relative clauses in visual context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adina Camelia Bleotu (0000-0002-5838-2676, University of Bucharest), Deborah Foucault (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Thomas Roeper (0000-0002-9353-4452, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Tom Roeper |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5535 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5535 |
| OpenAlex | W4367186832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
We present evidence from two picture-matching experiments that native adult speakers of American English order and interpret sequences of nouns modified by adjectives/relative clauses containing adjectives in line with the Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Principle proposed in Bleotu & Roeper (2022a, b) and Bleotu, Foucault, & Roeper (2023). This principle ensures an automatic mapping of set-subset semantics to a recursive syntax in Universal Grammar, such that set modifiers are merged closer to the noun than subset modifiers: leaves (N) that are short (SET) that are long (SUBSET) or short (SET) leaves (N) that are long (SUBSET). We here expand upon the interpretation and ordering of set-subset modification to elucidate the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interface
Combinatorics · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Programming language · Relative clause · Syntax · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |