Sentence examples for syntactic interpretation from inspiring English sources

Previous work discussing the issue of difficult clauses has advised to follow the more stable syntactic interpretation.

Even though the ambiguous phrases were presented in a neutral context, subjects have preferences for one syntactic interpretation over another, which affect the ease with which ambiguities can be resolved (Rayner and Duffy, 1986).

The patients do not show comparable effects of dominance, since their syntactic deficits compromise their ability to conduct the syntactic computations that result in strong preferences for one syntactic interpretation over another.

This suggests that phonological short-term memory is loaded more heavily for inflected words containing a grammatical morpheme that needs to be separated from its stem, and that performs different functions in the syntactic interpretation of an utterance.

They initially base their analysis on the dominant syntactic interpretation (e.g. 'bullying teenagers' as a subject noun phrase) and then have to revise this interpretation when the disambiguating word (e.g. 'is') turns out to force an interpretation that is inconsistent with the dominant reading and consistent with the subordinate reading.

It has been claimed that when listeners encounter a syntactically ambiguous phrase they temporarily activate both syntactic interpretations and this increases working memory load (MacDonald et al., 1992).

Participant comments for REJECT are given in (8) to (10), suggesting a conscious reflection of the conflict between semantic and syntactic interpretations.

There exists a one-to-one correspondence between syntactic rules and interpretation rules, and the sequence of executed interpretation rules is determined by the sequence of corresponding syntactic reductions which constitute a parse.

The first advantage to this approach is that an analyst is not forced to make a compromised decision by prioritising either syntactic or conceptual interpretation in cases where there is a tension between the two.

This seems highly plausible in Crinion and Price's (2005) study where the materials consisted of narratives developed for 4- to 6-year-olds and used simple, high frequency words and simple structures, making little call on specifically syntactic cues to interpretation.

Specifically the option to annotate syntactic and semantic interpretations separately would alleviate problems associated with the lack of correspondence between these levels.