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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Processing negative sentences



Noam Chomsky by John Lyons has chapters on Transformational grammar and Generative grammar. The most impressive line in the book is the difficulty in understanding john's friend's wife's father'sgardener's daughter's cat and rephrasing it.

Looking at the mathematical linguistics, I wonder if we can answer a question of mine. Why do we read the negative of a sentence sometimes, even if it is not written so. 
Sentence polarity and processing.

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