Table of Contents

Introduction Laurie Karttunen and Arnold M. Zwicky; 1. Measuring syntactic complexity relative to discourse context Alice Davison and Richard Lutz; 2. Interpreting questions Elisabet Engdahl; 3. How can grammars help parsers? Stephen Crain and Janet Dean Fodor; 4. Syntactic complexity Lyn Frazier; 5. Processing of sentences with intrasentential code switching Aravind K. Joshi; 6. Tree adjoining grammars: how much context-sensitivity is required to provide reasonable structural descriptions Aravind K. Joshi; 7. Parsing in functional unification grammar Martin Kay; 8. Parsing in a free word order language Lauri Karttunen and Martin Kay; 9. A new characterization of attachment preferences Fernando C. N. Pereira; 10. On not being led up the garden path: the use of context by the pscyhological syntax processor Stephen Crain and Mark Steedman; 11. Do listeners compute linguistic representations? Michael K. Tanenhaus, Greg N. Carlson and Mark S. Seidenberg; Notes; References; Index.