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Antecedent (grammar)
About: Antecedent (grammar) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1392 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41824 citations.
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TL;DR: This article measured causal antecedent and causal consequence inferences during the comprehension of short scientific texts using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) procedure in conjunction with a lexical decision task.
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TL;DR: A learning system is described that makes a large part of the concept description language an explicit input, and some of the possible applications of providing this additional input are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of grammatical dependencies that is in accordance with basic assumptions of bare phrase structure theory is presented, based on two primitive syntactic relations (copying and function application) and a nonatomic view of nodes.
Abstract: This article presents a theory of grammatical dependencies that is in accordance with basic assumptions of bare phrase structure theory. It explains Koster's (1987) configurational matrix, the observation that such dependencies share five properties: c-command by the antecedent, obligatoriness, uniqueness of the antecedent, nonuniqueness of the dependent, and locality. The theory is based on two primitive syntactic relations (copying and function application) and a nonatomic view of nodes.
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22 Sep 2005TL;DR: The findings show that dependencies are established at distinct levels of linguistic encoding determined by the presence or absence of coargumenthood and the representation of the dependency-forming elements.
Abstract: This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the establishment of dependency is discussed within a model of syntax—discourse correspondences that predicts an economy-based dependency hierarchy contingent on the level of representation at which the dependency is formed as well as the internal structure of the dependent element and its antecedent. Secondly, the model’s predictions are substantiated by a series of experimental studies (conducted in English and Dutch) providing evidence from three sources of online sentence comprehension: reaction time studies, Broca’s aphasia patient studies, and event-related brain potential studies. The findings show that dependencies are established at distinct levels of linguistic encoding (i.e. syntax or discourse) determined by the presence or absence of coargumenthood and the representation of the dependency-forming elements.
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TL;DR: The model suggests that this interpretation of conditional statement of the form 'if ... then' is based on the construction of mental models supplied by establishing a correspondence between the semantic spaces associated with the antecedent and consequent of the statements.
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