Optimality Theoretic Semantics.
The aim of this article is to elucidate the processes that characterize natural language interpretation. The basic hypothesis is that natural language interpretation can be characterized as an optimization problem. This innovative view on interpretation is shown to account for the crucial role of co...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 33 |
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Feb2001
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