>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:32:49 +0100 (BST)
>To: relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
>Subject: rt and syntax
>
>Dear all,
>
>In connection with the issues Steve Nicolle raised regarding -among
>other things- the relation between syntax and relevance theory, I would
>like to say that Marjolein Groefsema showed in her relevance-based
>(input) processing model that the anticipatory hypotheses that hearers
>build on line could not be based on syntactic categories. This is
>because the correspondence between syntactic labels and conceptual
>categories is one-to-many, which would lead to a computational
>explosion. She goes through the experimental literature and finds
>problems with models which postulate an autonomous syntactic parser. As
>many of you may know, she claims that lexical items give automatic
>access to logical information on how to compute conceptual
>representations and looks in detail at issues such as implicit
>arguments, multiple centre-embedded sentences, filler-gap dependencies
>and issues of acceptability.
>
>Begoqa Vicente
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