> From: Robin Setton <Robin.Setton@eti.unige.ch>
> Date: Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:50:28 am Europe/London
> Subject: Conceptual/lexical entries
>
>
> Dear List
>
> This is an enquiry which I suppose fits into the recent theme of
> 'relations between RT and other theories', but probably less
> controversial.
>
> Can anyone tell me how the RT proposals for the organisation of
> information about a concept - logical, lexical and conceptual entries -
> might correlate with Levelt's proposal for the organisation of lexical
> information in his (1989) speech production model, i.e. where a word
> or phrase is represented by a lemma (meanings and morphosyntactic
> specification) and a wordform (phonology) ? In this model the
> formulator looks for lemmas whose semantic representations fit
> fragments of the conceptual structure making up the pre-verbal message,
> getting their grammatical then phonological specifications for
> formulation and articulation. (In comprehension, the incoming words
> retrieve the lemmas via their word forms).
>
> (Background: I'm trying to further specify the lexical processing
> dimension of my 1999 model of simultaneous interpreting, specifically
> the use of stored reliable (source-to-target language, SL-TL ) word and
> phrase equivalents as against complete 'deverbalisation' and
> reformulation in TL from the conceptual structure.... which is of
> course related to the notorious 'free vs literal translation' debate.)
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me on how these two formalisms might
> correlate (they don't seem incompatible to me on the face of it).
>
> Best,
>
> Robin
>
>
>
> Prof. Robin Setton
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> Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation (ETI)
> Université de Genève
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