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Mechanisms for interaction: Syntax as procedures for online interactive meaning building
Ruth Kempson1, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis2, Ronnie Cann3
1Philosophy Department, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/associates/emeritus/kempson/index.aspx
Abstract:
We argue that to reflect participant interactivity in conversational dialogue, the Christiansen & Chater (C&C) perspective needs a formal grammar framework capturing word-by-word incrementality, as in Dynamic Syntax, in which syntax is the incremental building of semantic representations reflecting real-time parsing dynamics. We demonstrate that, with such formulation, syntactic, semantic, and morpho-syntactic dependencies are all analysable as grounded in their potential for interaction.
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