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This text argues that an explicit alternative theory is needed to specify which decisions are made at which points during interpretive processing and to spell out the principles governing the processor's preferred choice at points of ambiguity or uncertainty. At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is interpreted by the perceiver at the earliest conceivable point, using all potentially relevant sources of information. A variety of counter examples are presented to argue against this implicit theory of sentence interpretation. Several specific issues are explored concerning how the processor assigns a focal structure to an input sentence, how it identifies the topic of the sentence, how implicit restrictors on the domain of quantification are interpreted and how the identification of the content of a restrictor may guide the processor's use of discourse information.

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Author:   P.A. Leffelaar
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2nd ed. 1999
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9780792355267

ISBN 10:   0792355261
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   31 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A Fundamentals of dynamic simulation.- 1 Philosophy and terminology.- 2 Basic elements of dynamic simulation.- 3 A simulation language: Continuous System Modeling Program III.- 4 The growth of yeast.- 5 Additional exercises I.- B Advanced themes in dynamic simulation.- 6 Numerical integration and error analysis.- 7 Aspects of structured programming using CSMP and FORTRAN.- 8 Modelling of ageing, development, delays and dispersion.- 9 Mass flow, numerical dispersion and diffusion.- 10 Simulation using a general purpose computer language.- 11 Additional exercises II.- References.

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