Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2004 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (Germanistik), language: English, abstract: Natural language is a complicated thing. When processing a sentence, the human parser has to keep track of the structure of the sentence; this requires remembering the input string, integrating new words into already built structures, and many other things, - and everything has to be done on-line. If the sentence becomes too difficult, the parser will lose control, and processing becomes slow, or may eventually break down. There have been...