Abstract
We discuss and debunk five common assumptions about the interrelation of semantics, syntax, and frequency during sentence processing. In the course of this, we explore the implications of the view that syntax is assigned as the last stage of comprehension rather than the first: Statistically based perceptual strategies propose an initial semantic representation, which then constrains the assignment of syntactic representations. This view accounts for a variety of facts, as well as suggesting some surprising new ones.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-284 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Mar 1998 |