Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation PDF
by Cassandre Creswell
Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series
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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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- Pages:196 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/12/2004
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- ISBN:9781135876210
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- Pages:196 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/12/2004
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- ISBN:9781135876210
