Indirect request processing, sentence types and illocutionary forces

A Model for Processing Illocutionary Structures and Argumentation in Debates

In this paper, we briefly present the objectives of Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) and the formal structure which is proposed for dialogues. Then, we introduce our development corpus, and a computational model designed for the identification of discourse minimal units in the context of argumentation and the illocutionary force associated with each unit. We show the categories of resources whi...

Intonation and sentence processing

This paper summarises recent research concerning the relationship between intonation and the syntactic analysis of sentences. After introductory comments on the nature of intonation, we discuss methodological problems in determining the relationship between syntactic and intonational structure, and the potential dangers of basing claims about this relationship on scripted readings rather than o...

Sentence Processing

representations that capture the similarities between these sentences. Production priming has only recently been used to study the nature of children’s linguistic abstractions. Some researchers have found evidence for abstract structural priming in threeand four-year-old children (Huttenlocher et al. 2004, Song & Fisher 2004). Others have not (Gamez et al. 2005, Savage et al. 2003). Recently we...

Canonicity Effect on Sentence Processing of Persian-speaking Broca’s Patients

Introduction: Fundamental notions of mapping hypothesis and canonicity were scrutinized in Persian-speaking aphasics.  Methods: To this end, the performance of four age-, education-, and gender matched Persian-speaking Broca's patients and eight matched healthy controls in diverse complex structures were compared via the conduction of two tasks of syntactic comprehension and grammaticality jud...

Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing