Abstract
Mark Steedman (1989) has suggested that each of the following assumptions about human language understanding is appealing, but that they lead to a paradox when taken together: 1. Incremental comprehension: Human natural language understanding is serial and incremental: the words of a sentence are interpreted rapidly as they are heard or read. 2. Right-branching syntactic structures: English, like other SVO and SOV languages, has predominantly right-branching syntactic structures. 3. Strong competence hypothesis: The principles of the competence grammar are directly used by the human language processor in constructing a syntactic structure and interpreting it.
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