English phrase structure for the sentence "The reporter that the senator attacked disliked the editor." (Image by Prof. Edward Gibson.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Edward Gibson
MIT Course Number
9.591J / 24.945J
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Graduate
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Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a seminar in real-time language comprehension. It considers models of sentence and discourse comprehension from the linguistic, psychology, and artificial intelligence literature, including symbolic and connectionist models. Topics include ambiguity resolution and linguistic complexity; the use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual and prosodic information in language comprehension; the relationship between the computational resources available in working memory and the language processing mechanism; and the psychological reality of linguistic representations.
