On the Relation between Representational and Processing Models of Asyntactic Comprehension

Most accounts of asyntactic comprehension fall along a spectrum from pure representational accounts to pure processing accounts. The double dependency hypothesis of Mauner, Fromkin, and Cornell (1993) is an example of the former, while the SYNCHRON model of Haarman and Kolk (1991; see also Kolk, thi...

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Published inBrain and language Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 304 - 324
Main Author Cornell, T.L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.09.1995
Academic Press
Subjects
Agrammatism
Aphasia - complications
Cognitive Processes
Computer Applications
Humans
Language Disorders - diagnosis
Language Disorders - etiology
Language Pathology
Language Processing
Neurolinguistics
Parsing
Semantics
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ISSN0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI10.1006/brln.1995.1050

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Summary:Most accounts of asyntactic comprehension fall along a spectrum from pure representational accounts to pure processing accounts. The double dependency hypothesis of Mauner, Fromkin, and Cornell (1993) is an example of the former, while the SYNCHRON model of Haarman and Kolk (1991; see also Kolk, this volume) is an example of the latter. This paper attempts to demonstrate some of the ways that these two approaches interact. We introduce GENCHRON, a computer model based on Haarman and Kolk′s SYNCHRON. GENCHRON is a parser subject to the kinds of processing deficits examined in Haarman and Kolk (1991). We present a simple grammar which leads GENCHRON to produce the kinds of semantic representations which Mauner, Fromkin, and Cornell (1993) propose for asyntactic comprehenders.
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ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.1995.1050