Marcus M.P. A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language

Издательство MIT Press, 1980, -353 pp.This study is an attempt to demonstrate that assumptions about the computational limitations of cognitive processes can lead to important insights into non-computational cognitive theories. It is a slightly revised form of the my Ph.D. dissertation, completed in October 1977, with changes limited mainly to correction of errors of argument and lapses in style. I have tried to relegate expression of the ongoing modification of this model to footnotes; none of these modifications are mature enough as of yet to warrant revision of the text itself.
The accounts of psychological and linguistic phenomena described in following pages were not my intention when I originally began this research. The mechanism described here was originally constructed to demonstrate a computational point about the "parsability" of natural language. It was only later that I chanced upon the realization that the behavior of this mechanism shed light on phenomena well known in other fields that study language, in particular that it seemed to provide an explanation for what psycholinguists call "garden path" sentences, and that it could violate only with great difficulty several linguistic constraints proposed as universals of language by Noam Chomsky. These accounts then became primary evidence for the computational argument I had wished to make at the outset.
If this study helps in any way to bring closer together the many fields which focus on the study of the structure of mind through the study of the structure of language, then this effort will have been well repaid.Historical Perspective - A Critique of Hypothesis-Driven Parsing
The Grammar Interpreter
The Structure of the Grammar
Capturing Linguistic Generalizations
The Grammar Interpreter and Chomsky's Constraints
Parsing Relative Clauses Ross's Complex NP Constraint
Parsing Noun Phrases - Extending the Grammar Interpreter
Differential Diagnosis
On the Necessity of Some Semantic/Syntactic Interactions
Conclusions
A: An Approach to Noun-Noun Modification
B: The PIDGIN Primer
C: Grammar Rules Referenced
D: A Sample Grammar
E: The Case Frame Interpreter