Language Production and Interpretation: Linguistics Meets Cognition - Couverture rigide

Zeevat, Henk

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004252894 ISBN 13 : 9789004252899

Editeur : Brill, 2014

Synopsis

An utterance is normally produced by a speaker in linear time and the hearer normally correctly identifies the speaker intention in linear time and incrementally. This is hard to understand in a standard competence grammar since languages are highly ambiguous and context-free parsing is not linear. Deterministic utterance generation from intention and n-best Bayesian interpretation, based on the production grammar and the prior probabilities that need to be assumed for other perception do much better. The proposed model uses symbolic grammar and derives symbolic semantic representations, but treats interpretation as just another form of perception. Removing interpretation from grammar is not only empirically motivated, but also makes linguistics a much more feasible enterprise.

The importance of Henk Zeevat's new monograph cannot be overstated. Its combination of breadth, formal rigor, and originality is unparalleled in work on the form-meaning interface in human language...Zeevat's is the first proposal which provides a computationally feasible integrated treatment of production and comprehension for pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and even phonology. I recommend it to anyone who combines interests in language, logic, and computation with a sense of adventure. David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Henk Zeevat (PhD 1992 University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in Amsterdam. He has worked on semantics, pragmatics and formal grammar and their implementation, especially on discourse semantics and optimality theoretic pragmatics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004252894
• ISBN 13: 9789004252899
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne