PS366 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interrupt, Mental Model, Syntactic Ambiguity
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Parsing: assign elements of surface structure to linguistic categories. Immediacy principle: when we first see a word, access meaning, identify referent, fit into syntactic structure: wait and see approach: postpone interpretation until know what is going on. Models of sentence processing: word order constraints, transformational grammar/ case grammar, verb subcategorization frames, working memory, syntactic ambiguity. Modular versus interactive processing in sentence processing: two-stage modular model/ garden-path model. First stage: only the syntactic category of words influence initial interpretation. Simply determines what category a word is. Second stage occurs close behind the categorical parser, interacting with the initial interpretation. Semantic plausibility/context: do the words make sense. Garden path model: garden path model assumptions. Serial processing: one structure at a time. Simplicity: no unnecessary structure; build the least complex representation: heuristics. Advantage to quickly compute some info, shortcut. Minimal attachment: when more than one structure is possible, build the structure with the fewest nodes.
