A competition-based explanation of syntactic attachment preferences and garden path phenomena

Authors:
Suzanne Stevenson
Affiliations:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue:
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1993

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Abstract

This paper presents a massively parallel parser that predicts critical attachment behaviors of the human sentence processor, without the use of explicit preference heuristics or revision strategies. The processing of a syntactic ambiguity is modeled as an active, distributed competition among the potential attachments for a phrase. Computationally motivated constraints on the competitive mechanism provide a principled and uniform account of a range of human attachment preferences and garden path phenomena.