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"Conflicts in Interpretation" applies novel methods of constraint
interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in
linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core
semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy, negation,
(in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical structure. It
explores the hypothesis that a natural language grammar is a set of
potentially conflicting constraints on forms and meanings.
Moreover, it hypothesizes that competent language users not only
optimize from an input form to the optimal output meaning for this
form, or vice versa, but also consider the opposite direction of
optimization, thus taking into account the speaker as a hearer and
taking into account the hearer as a speaker. The book aims to show
that such a bidirectional constraint-based grammar sheds new light
on the relation between form and meaning, within a sentence as well
as across sentence boundaries, within a single language as well as
across languages, and within competent adult language users as well
as during language development. An important dimension of the book
is the structured investigation of issues at the interface of
semantics with syntax and pragmatics, such as the effects of
distinguishing between speaker's perspective and hearer's
perspective in comprehension and production, stable and instable
patterns of form and meaning across languages, and the development
of a coherent pattern of form and meaning in children. The book
will be of interest to any researcher or advanced student in
linguistics, cognitive science, language typology, or
psycholinguistics who is interested in the capacity of our human
mind to map meaning onto form, and form onto meaning.
"Conflicts in Interpretation" applies novel methods of constraint
interaction, derived from connectionist theories and implemented in
linguistics within the framework of Optimality Theory, to core
semantic and pragmatic issues such as polysemy, negation,
(in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical structure. It
explores the hypothesis that a natural language grammar is a set of
potentially conflicting constraints on forms and meanings.
Moreover, it hypothesizes that competent language users not only
optimize from an input form to the optimal output meaning for this
form, or vice versa, but also consider the opposite direction of
optimization, thus taking into account the speaker as a hearer and
taking into account the hearer as a speaker. The book aims to show
that such a bidirectional constraint-based grammar sheds new light
on the relation between form and meaning, within a sentence as well
as across sentence boundaries, within a single language as well as
across languages, and within competent adult language users as well
as during language development. An important dimension of the book
is the structured investigation of issues at the interface of
semantics with syntax and pragmatics, such as the effects of
distinguishing between speaker's perspective and hearer's
perspective in comprehension and production, stable and instable
patterns of form and meaning across languages, and the development
of a coherent pattern of form and meaning in children. The book
will be of interest to any researcher or advanced student in
linguistics, cognitive science, language typology, or
psycholinguistics who is interested in the capacity of our human
mind to map meaning onto form, and form onto meaning.
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