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Psychosyntax: the nature of grammar and its place in the mind
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The ontology of language and the methodology of linguistics --
Introduction --
Katz's argument against epistemological holism --
The infinitude of language and the ontology of linguistics --
Conclusion --
Cognitivism and nominalism in the philosophy of linguistics --
Introduction --
Chomsky, I-language, and the vognitivist conception of linguistics --
Devitt's "linguistic conception" --
Objections and replies --
Distinguishing competence from its products, and linguistics from psycholinguistics --
Conclusion --
E-Language and I-language --
Introduction --
Motivating the study of "E-language" --
The role of E-language in acquisition theory --
Do linguists really study I-languages? --
Individuating I-languages --
Conclusion --
Language acquisition and the explanatory adequacy condition --
Introduction --
Does pursuit of explanatory adequacy require the cognitive conception? --
Defusing an argument for the cognitivist conception --
In practice, do acquisition results constrain syntactic theorizing? --
Conclusion --
Mental phrase markers in sentence processing --
Introduction --
Neurocognitive findings --
Summary --
The argument from structural priming --
Summary --
The argument from garden-path effects --
Summary --
The argument from filler-gap processing --
Conclusion --
Two attempts to do without mental phrase markers --
Introduction --
The "mostly-semantics" models of the yale school --
Why the "mostly-semantic" models don't work --
Brute-causal processing --
Is Language comprehension an associationist process? --
Is language comprehension simple, rigid, or reflex-like? --
The distinction between responding and representing --
What does all this tell us about the nature of mental representation? --
Conclusion --
Representation, embodiment, and subpersonal states --
Introduction --
Theories of mental representation --
Why take a stand on mental representation? --
Internalism, externalism, and the functional-role via media --
The personal, subpersonal distinction --
Eight marks of a subpersonal state --
Functionalism and functional-role semantics --
Computational psychology, hardwired rules, and embodied procedural knowledge --
Grammar as a set of subpersonal embodied procedural dispositions --
Summary and conclusion --
Computational models and Psychological reality --
Introduction --
The grammar, first pass : context-free phrase structure grammars --
The algorithm --
Top-down parsing and the earley algorithm --
Bottom-up parsing and the CYK algorithm --
Left-corner parsing --
Parsing as deduction --
The oracle : dealing with inefficiency and ambiguity --
Resource-based approaches --
Frequency-based approaches and probabilistic context-free grammars --
The psychological reality of syntactic principles --
Introduction --
Transformational grammar --
The psychological reality of transformations and the derivational theory of complexity --
The failure of old-school transformational parsers --
Augmented transition networks --
Parsing with an ATN --
The bearing of ATNs on the psychological reality issue --
Problems for the ATN framework --
Principles and parameters in syntax and parsing --
Government and binding theory --
Principles-based parsing --
Minimalist grammars --
Minimalism : the basics (features, merge, move, and spell-out) --
Parsing with minimalist grammars --
Minimalist grammar as an ambiguity resolution strategy --
Summary and conclusions --
References.
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9783319600666
9783319600642
9783319600642
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