PSY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adpositional Phrase, Syntactic Ambiguity, Cut Blocking
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Parsing models: how do we parse sentences. Parsing: the process by which we assign elements of a sentence"s surface structure to linguistic categories, yielding an internal representation of its structure. Problem: knowing where to assign each incoming element is not always that easy. The paparazzi photographed the brother of the actress who was driving recklessly. Because he always jogged a mile seemed like a short distance to him. The defendant examined by the lawyer turned out to be unreliable. So it appears that decisions must be made! How would we decide what to do with this information: The florist sent the flowers was very pleased. Make it the head of a vp under s. Make it the verb of a reduced relative clause under the noun florist ! (the florist who was sent ) Keep both interpretations active until you get disambiguating information. What would be the cognitive disadvantage of this approach: overloads mental capacity of memory.
