Prosody, syntax and the lexicon in parsing ambiguous sentences

This thesis tests the early incorporation of prosodic information during on-line processing of ambiguous word pairs such as Packing cases. The word pair is syntactically ambiguous between a noun or verb phrase interpretation. However, the two interpretations are prosodically distinct. An on-line, cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mani, Nivedita
Other Authors: Coleman, John
Published: University of Oxford 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433347