The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and Experimental Issues

1. Preface 2. Words, numbers and all that: The lexicon in sentence understanding (by Stevenson, Suzanne) 3. The lexicon in Optimality Theory (by Bresnan, Joan) 4. Optimality-theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar (by Johnson, Mark) 5. The lexicon and the laundromat (by Fodor, Jerry) 6. Semantics in the spin cycle: Competence and performance criteria for the creation of lexical entries (by Weinberg, Amy) 7. Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing (by Steedman, Mark) 8. A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging (by Kim, Albert E.) 9. Incrementality and lexicalism: A treebank study (by Lombardo, Vincenzo) 10. Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms: The case from lexical category disambiguation (by Crocker, Matthew) 11. Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension (by Stowe, Laurie A.) 12. The time course of information integration in sentence processing (by Spivey, Michael J.) 13. The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role in sentence and discourse understanding (by Mauner, Gail) 14. Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses (by Filip, Hana) 15. Predicting thematic role assignments in context (by Altmann, Gerry T.M.) 16. Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases (by Argamann, Vera) 17. Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities (by Roland, Doug) 18. Author index 19. Item index