The X-Bar grammar for stories: Story grammar revisited
The X-Bar grammar for stories: Story grammar revisited
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故事的 X-Bar 语法:重新审视故事语法
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10.1515/text.1.1989.9.4.415
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1989
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Yeshayahu Shen
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Yeshayahu Shen
The Story Grammar (S-G = Story Grammar) approach suggests a model based on the generative framework for representing both story structure and comprehension (cf.,for example, Rumelhart, 1975, 1977; Mandler and Johnson, 1977; Stein and Glenn, 1979; Thorndyke, 1975). The present paper is an attempt to develop the S-G model in two ways: 1. It suggests a radical revision of the S-G model replacing it with an X-Bar story grammar (XBSG), which incorporates the notion ofthe X-Bar grammar äs developed in sentence level grammar (cf. Jackendoff, 1977). I will argue that several fundamental shortcomings of the S-G (among which are the lack of 'descriptive' and Observational' adequacy) can be overcome by a grammar based on the X-Bar model. 2. Ofgreater importance, it attempts tofill in the most significant deficiency of the traditional story grammar s, namely, the lack ofparsing procedures. Based on causal relations between propositions, the parsing procedures which are proposed take äs their input propositions ofthe story andproduce the tree diagram ofthat story äs their Output. Some empirical evidence, based on summary experiments, is introduced in support of the XBSG and the parsing procedures.