Overview
By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows step-by-step how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. Along the way, Hale reconsiders garden-pathing, the parallel/serial distinction, and information-theoretical complexity metrics, such as surprisal. This book is a must for cognitive scientists of language.
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Author: John T. Hale
Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Dimensions:
Width: 1.60cm
, Height: 0.10cm
, Length: 2.30cm
Weight: 0.198kg
ISBN: 9781575867472
ISBN 10: 1575867478
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 15 October 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Hale is a genuine computational psycholinguist: a rare type of cognitive scientist who uses computational models of language processing to explain what sorts of structures are hard and easy for humans to produce and/or comprehend. In this monograph, he presents the formal foundations underlying this type of research, drawing on results in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and information theory. The presentation is clear and systematic, making this an extremely useful book for scholars in one of these fields seeking to understand work in this highly interdisciplinary area.""--Tom Wasow, Stanford University"
Hale is a genuine computational psycholinguist: a rare type of cognitive scientist who uses computational models of language processing to explain what sorts of structures are hard and easy for humans to produce and/or comprehend. In this monograph, he presents the formal foundations underlying this type of research, drawing on results in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and information theory. The presentation is clear and systematic, making this an extremely useful book for scholars in one of these fields seeking to understand work in this highly interdisciplinary area. --Tom Wasow, Stanford University
Hale is a genuine computational psycholinguist: a rare type of cognitive scientist who uses computational models of language processing to explain what sorts of structures are hard and easy for humans to produce and/or comprehend. In this monograph, he presents the formal foundations underlying this type of research, drawing on results in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and information theory. The presentation is clear and systematic, making this an extremely useful book for scholars in one of these fields seeking to understand work in this highly interdisciplinary area. --Tom Wasow, Stanford University Hale is a genuine computational psycholinguist: a rare type of cognitive scientist who uses computational models of language processing to explain what sorts of structures are hard and easy for humans to produce and/or comprehend. In this monograph, he presents the formal foundations underlying this type of research, drawing on results in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and information theory. The presentation is clear and systematic, making this an extremely useful book for scholars in one of these fields seeking to understand work in this highly interdisciplinary area. --Tom Wasow, Stanford University
Author Information
John T. Hale is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University.
