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...

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Published in:	Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 33
Main Authors:	Hendriks, Petra, de Hoop, Helen
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2001
Subjects:	Language & languages Compositionality (Linguistics) Literary recreations Comparative grammar Information theory Anaphora (Linguistics)
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