Head position and parsing ambiguity
Head position and parsing ambiguity
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头部位置和解析歧义
DOI：
10.1007/bf01067218
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发表时间：
1991
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2
通讯作者：
Bradley L. Pritchett
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作者：
Bradley L. Pritchett
一种强原则性的句法分析模式试图在语言处理中直接使用能力语法的原则。在语法理论中，投射原则认为每个层次的句法表征都是中心语词汇属性的统一投射。关于句法分析，这表明短语节点只有在其中心语出现时才能被投射，从而构成了关于人类语言处理的基本性质的强有力的经验假说。本文对比了一个特定的语法分析模式和一个著名的自上而下模式的跨语言预测，后者的功能理据显然是非语言的。后一种最小依恋模型被发现对于诸如日语的语言的处理具有显著的困难，日语的表面特性与英语相当不同。在一个认识到中心语在许可论元结构中相对于加工和语法的关键作用的模型中，这个问题不会遇到。跨语言句法分析的差异归因于许可中心的线性和结构位置，这构成了跨语言变异的主要轨迹，因此最终被直接归因于投射原则。
A strongly principle-based model of parsing seeks to employ principles of the competence grammar directly in language processing. Within grammatical theory, the Projection Principle holds that each level of syntactic representation is a uniform projection of the lexical properties of heads. With respect to parsing this suggests that a phrasal node cannot be projected until the occurrence of its head and thus constitutes a strong empirical hypothesis concerning the fundamental nature of human language processing. This paper contrasts some cross-linguistic predictions made by a specific Grammarderived parsing model against those of a well-known top-down model whose functional motivation is decidedly nonlinguistic. This latter Minimal Attachment model is found to predict significant difficulty with respect to the processing of languages such as Japanese, which display rather different surface properties than English. This problem is not encountered in a model which recognizes the crucial role of heads in licensing argument structure with respect to Processing as well as Grammar. Cross-linguistic parsing differences are attributed to the linear and structural positions of licensing heads which constitute the primary locus of the cross-linguistic variation which is therefore ultimately to be ascribed directly to the Projection Principle.