Behavioral and Brain Sciences



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Constituent structure and the binding problem


Colin Phillips a1 and Matthew Wagers a1
a1 Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20782 colin@umd.edu mwagers@umd.edu http://www.ling.umd.edu/colin http://www.ling.umd.edu/matt

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phillips c   [PubMed][Google Scholar] 
wagers m   [PubMed][Google Scholar] 

Abstract

van der Velde's & de Kamps's model encodes complex word-to-word relations in sentences but does not encode the hierarchical constituent structure of sentences, a fundamental property of most accounts of sentence structure. We summarize what is at stake and suggest two ways of incorporating constituency into the model.