Alignment at one level leads to alignment at other levels(2)

• Syntactic alignment is enhanced by lexical overlap (Brannigan et al. 2000)

  • Nun giving a book to a clown :- Sailor giving a hat to a girl vs. sSailor showing a hat to a girl

• Syntactic alignment is enhanced by semantic overlap (Cleland et al. 2002)

  • The sheep that’s red :- The goat that’s red vs. The book that’s red

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version