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The Processing of Tense - Psycholinguistic Studies on the Interpretation of Tense and Temporal Relations (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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The Processing of Tense - Psycholinguistic Studies on the Interpretation of Tense and Temporal Relations (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 28
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This work is a psycho linguistic investigation of the processing of
tense (more specifically, the English past tense): When it is
interpreted, how it is interpreted, and what it is interpreted with
respect to. While there has been a great deal of attention paid to
tense in the syntax and semantics literature, little work has been
done on the details of the psychological processing of this
category. The chief value and contribution of this book is to
present a richly detailed in-depth study of the processing of tense
in adult comprehension tasks, providing an excellent model of how
to conceive of detailed experimental work against a background of
sophisticated, deep, and broad linguistic theory. The discussion of
the representational issues is deep and informative, and is
directly brought to bear on experimental issues. The experiments
aim to evaluate whether a hypothesis called "Parsimony," a highly
plausible notion that has received tentative experimental support
in other domains, is the chief controlling feature of the
interpretation of tense. The experimental results presented quite
consistently do not confirm the apparent predictions made by
Parsimony, but rather tend to be more consistent with another view
(which Parsimony is aimed at opposing) which holds that actual
structural factors in the syntax of a sentence are a decisive
factor. Along the way, the author considers a number of other
plausible hypotheses as the experimental results are presented, but
evaluating Parsimony remains the chief organizing principle of the
line of research presented here.
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