Abstract
Stabler’s (2013) top-down parser for Minimalist grammars has been used to account for off-line processing preferences across a variety of seemingly unrelated phenomena cross-linguistically, via complexity metrics measuring “memory burden”. This paper extends the empirical coverage of the model by looking at the processing asymmetries of Italian relative clauses, as I discuss the relevance of these constructions in evaluating plausible structure-driven models of processing difficulty.- Anthology ID:
- W19-2911
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Cassandra Jacobs, Alessandro Lenci, Tal Linzen, Laurent Prévot, Enrico Santus
- Venue:
- CMCL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 93–104
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-2911
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-2911
- Cite (ACL):
- Aniello De Santo. 2019. Testing a Minimalist Grammar Parser on Italian Relative Clause Asymmetries. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 93–104, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Testing a Minimalist Grammar Parser on Italian Relative Clause Asymmetries (De Santo, CMCL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/W19-2911.pdf