This course is designed for syntacticians who want to explore the relationship between syntactic theories and sentence processing theories. It provides a foundation for linking explicit grammars (both context free grammars and minimalist grammars) to several fundamental parsing algorithms (bottom up, top down, and left corner). This is primarily a collection of readings. I am indebted to Tim Hunter and Ellen Lau for conversations that inspired this course, and for advice about some of the readings and organization. I am also taking inspiration from courses on parsing by Philip Resnik and Thomas Graf.
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