Psycholinguistic Adequacy of Left-corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars
Abstract
This paper shows that a left-corner parser for minimalist grammars requires more memory resources to parse center-embedding structures than both left- and right-embedding ones. In doing so, we propose a complexity metric that is derived from the notion of tenure. The results, if on the right track, indicate the viability of left-corner parsing for MGs as a model for human sentence processing.
Keywords: sentence processing, minimalist grammars, left-corner parsing
How to Cite:
Liu, L., (2024) “Psycholinguistic Adequacy of Left-corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 7(1), 275–280. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.2161
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