Optimization in Coordination

General information:

This project is funded by NWO as part of the Aspasia program.
Here's a full description of the project in pdf.

Team members:

Petra Hendriks (Principal Investigator)
John Hoeks (March 2004 - June 2006)

Publications:

2007:

John C.J. Hoeks, Petra Hendriks & Gisela Redeker (2007), Prosody, context, and thematic fit meet "Gapping": The interaction of multiple constraints in spoken sentence comprehension. In: D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 1085-1090.
Petra Hendriks, Hedderik van Rijn & Bea Valkenier (2007), Learning to reason about speakers' alternatives in sentence comprehension: A computational account. Lingua 117:11, 1879-1896. The original publication is available online at the publisher's website www.elsevier.com/locate/lingua.
Gosse Bouma, Petra Hendriks & Jack Hoeksema (2007), Focus particles inside prepositional phrases: A comparison of Dutch, English and German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 10:1, 1-24. The original publication is available at the publisher's website www.springerlink.com.

2006:

John Hoeks & Petra Hendriks (submitted), Optimality Theory and human sentence processing: Towards a cross-modular analysis of coordination. Manuscript, University of Groningen, May 2006.
Jennifer Spenader & Petra Hendriks (2006), Combining multiple information sources for ellipsis. Research on Language & Computation 4:4, 327-333. The original publication is available at the publisher's website www.springerlink.com.
Mariët Theune, Feikje Hielkema & Petra Hendriks (2006), Performing aggregation and ellipsis using discourse structures. Research on Language & Computation 4:4, 353-375. The original publication is available at the publisher's website www.springerlink.com.
John Hoeks, Petra Hendriks & Gisela Redeker (2006), Pragmatische Hersengolven: De reactie van het brein op de schending van Griceaanse Maximes. In: H. Hoeken, B. Hendriks, & P.J. Schellens (Eds.), Studies in taalbeheersing 2, Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, pp. 108-119.
John Hoeks, Petra Hendriks & Gisela Redeker (2006), Communicatie en het brein: Het gebruik van neuroimaging bij onderzoek naar dialogen. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing 28:3, 245-264.
Petra Hendriks & Jennifer Spenader (2005/2006), When production precedes comprehension: An optimization approach to the acquisition of pronouns. Language Acquisition 13:4, 319-348. Please contact copyright holder Lawrence Erlbaum Associates for permission to reprint or use the material in any form.
Marieke van der Feen, Petra Hendriks & John Hoeks (2006), Constraints in language processing: Do grammars count? In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06), Sydney, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1-8.
John Hoeks, Petra Hendriks & Louisa Zijlstra (2006), The predominance of nonstructural factors in the processing of gapping sentences. In: R. Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1511-1516.
John C.J. Hoeks, Petra Hendriks, Wietske Vonk, Colin M. Brown, & Peter Hagoort (2006), Processing the NP- versus S-coordination ambiguity: thematic information does not completely eliminate processing difficulty. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59:9, 1581-1599.

2005:

Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop & Monique Lamers (2005), Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar. In: Paul Dekker & Michael Franke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC, Amsterdam, pp. 113-118.
Jennifer Spenader & Petra Hendriks (Eds.) (2005), Proceedings of the ESSLLI '05 Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
Feikje Hielkema, Mariët Theune & Petra Hendriks (2005), Generating ellipsis using discourse structures. In: J. Spenader & P. Hendriks (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI '05 Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, pp. 37-44.
Petra Hendriks & Jennifer Spenader (2005), Why be silent? Some functions of ellipsis in natural language. In: J. Spenader & P. Hendriks (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI '05 Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, pp. 29-36.
John Hoeks & Petra Hendriks (2005), Optimality Theory and Human Sentence Processing: The Case of Coordination. In: B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.
Petra Hendriks (2005), Coordination. In: Philipp Strazny (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York, pp. 240-241.

2004:

Petra Hendriks & Sybrand van der Werf (2004), Regole di raggruppamento nella lingua e nella musica. Un programma informatico. Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, X:2, pp. 71-89.
Here is the English version of this Italian paper, entitled Optimal groups in music.
Petra Hendriks & Jennifer Spenader (2004), A bidirectional explanation of the pronoun interpretation problem. In: P. Schlenker & E. Keenan (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI '04 Workshop on Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory, Nancy, France.
Petra Hendriks (2004), Either, both and neither in coordinate structures. In: A. ter Meulen & W. Abraham (Eds.), The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 115-138.
Petra Hendriks (2004), Coherence Relations, Ellipsis, and Contrastive Topics. Journal of Semantics 21:2, pp. 133-153.
Sybrand van der Werf & Petra Hendriks (2004), A constraint-based approach to grouping in language and music. In: R. Parncutt, A. Kessler, & F. Zimmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM04), Graz, Austria.
Petra Hendriks (2004), Optimization in focus identification. In: R. Blutner & H. Zeevat (Eds), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 42-62.

2003:

Reinhard Blutner, Petra Hendriks & Helen de Hoop (2003), A new hypothesis on compositionality. In: Peter P. Slezak (Ed.), Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia, pp. 53-57.

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