Syntactic Processing: An Overview

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgements\nChapter 1 Introduction\n	1.1 Questions\n	1.2 The functional architecture of the linguistic mind\n	1.3 Minimal attachment\n	1.4 Ambiguity resolution and beyond: the oracle component of parsing\n	Notes\nChapter 2 Modifier adjunction with special reference to relative clauses inside complex NPs\n	2.1 Introduction: local adjunction\n	2.2 Relative clause adjunction\n	2.3 The adjunction of subject relative clauses to complex noun phrases\n		2.3.1 Computationally cheap trees: The Garden Path model\n		2.3.2 The role of frequency: Tuning\n		2.3.3 A refined two-step account: Construal\n		2.3.4 The role of segmentation, prosody and silent reading: the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis\n		2.3.5 Going for the meaning directly: the role of lexical semantics, coherence and reference\n		2.3.6 All at once in one stage: the Constraint Satisfaction Approach\n		2.3.7 The Unrestricted Race Model (URM) and the ambiguity advantage effect (AAE)\n		2.3.8 Grillo and Costa (2014): the Pseudo Relative confound\n	2.4 Conclusions\n	Notes\nChapter 3 Agreement\n	3.1 Introduction\n	3.2 Agreement attraction\n		3.2.1 Psycholinguistic theories of agreement\n			3.2.1.1 Maximal Input\n			3.2.1.2 Marking and Morphing\n			3.2.1.3 The cue-based Working Memory Model: retrieval in production\n			3.2.1.4 The scope of planning + semantic integration account\n			3.2.1.5 On morphology\n			3.2.1.6 Attraction in comprehension\n	3.3 More on comprehension: agreement in brain waves\n	3.4 Summing up\n	Notes\nChapter 4 Gap filling\n	4.1 Introduction\n	4.2 Working memory\n	4.3 Recent fillers: controlled PRO and gap-driven parsing\n	4.4 Filler-driven parsing: the Active Filler Strategy\n	4.5 Scrambling the word order predictability: the Minimal Chain Principle\n	4.6 Summary and conclusions\n	4.7 Epilogue, or when gaps are too radical and reference must be explicit: anaphor resolution\n	Notes\nChapter 5 On parsers and grammars\n	5.1 Introduction: on psychological adequacy\n	5.2 The Separate Grammar Hypothesis: heuristics and good-enough, goal-directed, predictive processing\n	5.3 The Grammatical Parser Hypothesis: the parser is the grammar\n	5.4 Grammatical illusions\n	5.5 On flexibility and opportunism\n	Notes\nReferences\nIndex