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Frazier, Lyn; Fodor, Janet Dean – Cognition, 1978
The human sentence parsing device assigns phrase structure to sentences in two steps. The first stage parser assigns lexical and phrasal nodes to substrings of words. The second stage parser then adds higher nodes to link these phrasal packages together into a complete phrase marker. This model is compared with others. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models, Phrase Structure
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Kean, Mary-Louise – Cognition, 1979
The justification for Kean's (EJ 165 107) analysis of agrammatism as a phonological disorder rests on a certain specific theory of the structure of human language faculty, which is summarized. Simply proposing a competing analysis based on a distinct theory does not falsify the hypotheses. However, Kean's claims are subject to empirical…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Models, Morphophonemics
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Moore, Timothy E.; Biederman, Irving – Cognition, 1979
The speed at which sentences with various kinds of violations could be rejected was studied. Compatible with the sequential model was the finding that noun-verb and adjective-noun double violations did not result in shorter reaction times than noun-verb single violations, although double violations were judged less acceptable. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Grammar, Higher Education