Proof Nets and the Complexity of Processing Center Embedded Constructions |
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| Authors: | Mark Johnson |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Box 1978, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | This paper shows how proof nets can be used to formalize the notion of  incomplete dependency used in psycholinguistic theories of the unacceptability of center embedded constructions. Such theories of human language processing can usually be restated in terms of geometrical constraints on proof nets. The paper ends with a discussion of the relationship between these constraints and incremental semantic interpretation. |
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| Keywords: | Human sentence processing psycholinguistics resource logics proof nets center embedding incomplete dependencies incremental semantic |
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