Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

The most predominant language processing theories have, for some time, been based
largely on structured knowledge and relatively simple rules. These symbolic models …

On the surface, a sentence (for example, I am writing this chapter on an aging Sony
notebook computer with a sticky Q key that I bought six years ago) is a linear sequence of …

Abstract discuss sentence comprehension, focusing on the relation between language
structure and language processing at this level of analysis/presents a history of sentence …

There are two views of cognition in general and of language comprehension in particular.
According to the traditional view (Chomsky, 1957; Fodor, 1983; Pylyshyn, 1986), the human …

Despite some recent speculations about the changing methodological styles in arti cial
intelligence, it is still possible to learn something by writing exploratory computer programs …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

The ability to combine words into novel sentences has been used to argue that humans
have symbolic language production abilities. Critiques of connectionist models of language …

Humboldt famously described language as a system of rules which “makes infinite use of
finite means”(Humboldt, 1836; see also Chomsky, 1965), and this is doubly true in the study …

People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories
assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived …