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In chapters III and IV, we have presented a model of sentence processing and its grammatical basis. We have argued generally that the human syntactic processor has a distributed, modular architecture, and more specifically that these modules are determined by representational and informational sub-domains of our syntactic knowledge. We have proposed four modules, each concerned with recovering different aspects of a coherent interpretation. Modules are responsible for recovering their own representation with respect to their current input. We have further outlined some aspects of the model’s computational behaviour: at a relatively high level, we propose that the modules operate concurrently and incrementally, with each constructing a maximal output representation for the current partial input, as input is encountered. In addition to each module satisfying the requirement of incrementality, we have also hypothesised several strategies, located primarily within the phrase structure module (since this is where the greatest amount of ambiguity occurs).
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Fong uses a similar organisation to the systems discussed above; i.e. an X̄ structure builder in tandem with the application of constraints. His approach is not unlike the use of ‘constraint requests’ used by (Crocker 1988), to determine what constraints ‘remained to be satisfied’/‘are relevant’ in a particular unit of structure.
For a thorough exposition see (Pereira & Shieber 1987). Note, in some cases it is possible to determine the relevant properties of a phrase structure grammar so that an inadequate strategy is not employed.
See (Stabler 1987) for a discussion relating the proof procedure assumed in (155) with an equivalent one which records the proof tree, as in (157).
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Crocker, M.W. (1996). A Logical Model of Computation. In: Computational Psycholinguistics. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1600-5_5
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