Book Chapter10.1007/978-94-009-1600-5_2
Perspectives on Sentence Processing
Matthew W. Crocker
- 01 Jan 1996
- pp 17-57
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TL;DR: A theory of human sentence processing is a characterisation of how people recover an interpretation for a given utterance, and should detail the processor’s organisation, the representations employed, and the algorithms used to construct an analysis.
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Abstract: A theory of human sentence processing is a characterisation of how people recover an interpretation for a given utterance. Ultimately such a theory should detail the processor’s organisation, the representations employed, and the algorithms used to construct an analysis — where such a characterisation is isomorphic to that of the mind. Furthermore, we must situate the sentence processor with respect to the other cognitive systems with which it interacts, outlining the nature and degree of communication at all interfaces.
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