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Meaning, Intonation And Negation

“…There is an interesting parallel with Optimality Theory (ot) here; ot syntacticians tend to focus on the speaker perspective, while ot semanticists (such as Hendriks and de Hoop 2001) tend to focus on the hearer. Recently, there has been an increased interest in combining the two perspectives (see e.g., Beaver 2004 for such a plea).…”

Beyond the individual: new insights on language, cognition and robots

“…This might show that the language we speak not only affects how we perceive the world, but that language impacts on knowledge acquisition and shaping of knowledge. Another, perhaps less recent, development is the view that language achieves optimality on all its different fronts, for example speech (Liljencrants and Lindblom 1972), semantics (Hendriks and de Hoop 2001), and syntax and politics (Lazear 1999). This optimality of language, both in representation and transmission, can be found back in statistical natural language processing, but has the potential to inform the design and implementation of language-sensitive robots (see Hofe and Moore, this issue).…”

Optimization in Focus Identification

“…Similarly, focus particles partition the sentence into two parts: the focal part and the rest (i.e., the non-focal part or background). In Hendriks and de Hoop (2001), it is argued that the two argument sets of a quantificational determiner are determined through the interaction of violable constraints. As I will argue in this paper, the focus of a focus particle is determined in a similar way.…”

“…But note that the first argument set of a determiner is always construed under the influence of context too (Hendriks and de Hoop 2001). In section 4, we will return to the relation between focus and quantification.…”

“…The constraint SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE (DET) is adapted from Hendriks and de Hoop (2001). 3 It requires all material in the N' to end up in the first argument set of a determiner and the rest of the clause to end up in the second argument set.…”