Abstract
Author: Lei Liu
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). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.2161