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    Lexical knowledge and stereotyped behavioral patterns can drive natural language interpretation nearly to the exclusion of syntax

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    • 1.Lexical interpretation of verbs (e.g., 'go' as ptrans) generates conceptual role configurations that constrain what constituents are expected
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    • 2.Script instantiation triggered by lexical and semantic cues creates expectations about likely action sequences without requiring syntactic analysis
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    • 3.This approach achieved unprecedented successes in machine understanding of paragraph-length stories
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    • 1.Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument establishes that surface lexical frequencies cannot account for the abstract syntactic knowledge humans demonstrably possess.
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    • 2.Systems that succeed on stereotyped narratives systematically fail on syntactically marked constructions like center-embedded clauses, revealing an undischarged dependency on syntax.
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    • 3.Success within a constrained corpus (restaurant scripts, etc.) confounds lexical-semantic sufficiency with domain restriction, not genuine syntactic dispensability.
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    • 1.Structural ambiguities like 'The horse raced past the barn fell' are unresolvable by lexical or script knowledge alone, requiring hierarchical syntactic parsing to assign correct argument structure.
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    • 2.Fodor and Bever's click-displacement experiments empirically demonstrate that humans track phrasal constituency independently of semantic content, evidence of autonomous syntactic processing.
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    At this point we should pause to consider some interpretive methods that do not conform with the above very common but not universally employed syntax-driven approach. First, Schank and his collaborators emphasized the role of lexical knowledge, especially primitive actions used in verb decomposition, and knowledge about stereotyped patterns of behavior in the interpretive process, nearly to the exclusion of syntax. For example, a sentence beginning “John went …” would lead to the generation o
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