A Formal Psycholinguistics Model Of Sentence Comprehension
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چکیده
This paper outlines a psychologically constrained theory of sentence comprehension The most prominent features of the theory are that: (1) syntactic structure is discarded clause by clause (where the traditional notion of clause is modified in certain r e s p e c t s so as to conform t o short term memory requirements); (2) the syntactic and semantic processor work in parallel. The semantic analysis proceeds from the preliminary semantic representation (PSR) via the intermediate SR (ISR) to the final SR (FSR), making crucial use O X an encyclopedia which codes semantic knowledge. The three stages of the semantic analysis are discussed. At every stage, the semantic representations are in terms of a modified p r e d i c a t e c a ~ c u l u s notation.
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