Deterministic parsing of syntactic non-fluencies

  • Authors:
  • Donald Hindle

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

It is often remarked that natural language, used naturally, is unnaturally ungrammatical. *Spontaneous speech contains all manner of false starts, hesitations, and self-corrections that disrupt the well-formedness of strings. It is a mystery then, that despite this apparent wide deviation from grammatical norms, people have little difficulty understanding the non-fluent speech that is the essential medium of everyday life. And it is a still greater mystery that children can succeed in acquiring the grammar of a language on the basis of evidence provided by a mixed set of apparently grammatical and ungrammatical strings.