Phonological pivot parsing
Grzegorz Dogil · 1986
There are two basic mysteries about natural language. The speed and ease with which it is acquired by a child and the speed and ease with which it is processed. Similarly to language acquisition, language processing faces a strong input-data-deficiency problem. When we speak we alter a great lot in the idealized phonological and phonetic representations. We delete whole phonemes, we radically change allophones, we shift stresses, we break up intonational patterns, we insert the pauses at the most unexpected places, etc. If to this crippled 'phonological string ' we add all the noise from the surroundings which does not help comprehension either, it is bewildering that the parser is supposed to recognize anything at all. However, even in the most difficult circumstances (foreign