{"product_id":"9780792356028","title":"Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStudies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFrazier, Lyn\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how  perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a  sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is  the idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by the  perceiver at the earliest conceivable point, using all potentially  relevant sources of information. A variety of counter examples are  presented to argue against this implicit theory of sentence  interpretation. It is argued that an explicit alternative theory is  needed to specify which decisions are made at which points during  interpretive processing and to spell out the principles governing the  processor's preferred choice at points of ambiguity or uncertainty.  Several specific issues are taken concerning how the processor assigns  a focal structure to an input sentence, how it identifies the topic of  the sentence, how implicit restrictors on the domain of quantification  are interpreted and how the identification of the content of a  restrictor may guide the processor's use of discourse information.  Exploiting intuitions about preferred interpretations of ambiguous  sentences as well as the results of both old and new experimental  studies, a theory of the preferred interpretation of Determiner  Phrases is presented. This work explores important, but overlooked  questions in on-line sentence interpretation and attempts to erect  some of the scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence  interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1999-06-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792356028\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-4599-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 223cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 174\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378896822412,"sku":"9780792356028","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792356028.jpg?v=1776432960","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792356028","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}