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. It is argued 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. Several specific issues are taken
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. Exploiting intuitions
about preferred interpretations of ambiguous sentences as well as
the results of both old and new experimental studies, a theory of
the preferred interpretation of Determiner Phrases is presented.
This work explores important, but overlooked questions in on-line
sentence interpretation and attempts to erect some of the
scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence interpretation.
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