From Natural Language to Cognitive Style
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ions and indicators as the « x » that was needed in example 4) expressing how the lexical morphemes are combined in the sentence ([Rozier & Tellier 92]). Montague’s system has often been criticized because it is fully compositional. We are not concerned by these critics here because our representation is not semantical. The only compositionality we assume is then a compositionality of mental states. As we neglect the « context effects », it seems perfectly acceptable to say that the mental state expressed in a sentence only depends on the elementary cognitive features of this sentence and of their mode of combination. 3.4. The Cognitive level
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