A psychologist's view of grammar
Gerard Kempen
Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University and
MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Montag, 07.07.2003, 16 Uhr c.t., H 9
Which criteria should a grammar formalism meet in order to be "psychologically plausible" ? To
what extent do these criteria dovetail with criteria of linguistic adequacy? The research I will
present was prompted by questions like these. After laying out some general desiderata for
psychological plausibility/reality, I outline the "Performance Grammar" formalism (PG) that was
specifically developed for psychological purposes. The talk includes two computer demonstrations:
the PG Workbench, a Dutch-language sentence generator; and the Unification Space, a PG-based
syntactic parser capable of simulating important phenomena of human sentence processing.
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