Syntactic Underspecification in a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing
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A formal linguistic model is proposed which simulates human neuro-cognitive behaviors in processing German sentences with and without unambiguous case markings. The grammar formalism is crucially based on syntactic underspecification as a key concept.
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