Abstract
Recent psycholinguistic evidence suggests that human parsing of moved elements is ‘active’, and perhaps even ‘hyper-active’: it seems that a leftward-moved object is related to a verbal position rapidly, perhaps even before the transitivity information associated with the verb is available to the listener. This paper presents a formal, sound and complete parser for Minimalist Grammars whose search space contains branching points that we can identify as the locus of the decision to perform this kind of active gap-finding. This brings formal models of parsing into closer contact with recent psycholinguistic theorizing than was previously possible.- Anthology ID:
- W19-2901
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue:
- CMCL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1–10
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-2901
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-2901
- Cite (ACL):
- Tim Hunter, Miloš Stanojević, and Edward Stabler. 2019. The Active-Filler Strategy in a Move-Eager Left-Corner Minimalist Grammar Parser. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 1–10, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Active-Filler Strategy in a Move-Eager Left-Corner Minimalist Grammar Parser (Hunter et al., CMCL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/W19-2901.pdf