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Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Creswell, Cassandre

 
9780415971041: Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415971047 ISBN 13: 9780415971041
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways with little conscious effort and with effective communicative results. Previous computational models of when English speakers produce non-canonical word orders, like topicalization, left-dislocation and clefts, fail. The primary goal of this book is to present a better model of when speakers choose to produce certain non-canonical word orders by incorporating the effects of discourse context and speaker goals on syntactic choice. This book makes extensive use of previously unexamined naturally occurring corpus data of non-canonical word order in English, both to illustrate the points of the theoretical model and to train the statistical model.

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About the Author

Cassandre Creswell earned her B.A. in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a M.S.E. in computer and information science and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415971047
ISBN 13 
9780415971041
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
194