THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF SENTENCE PROCESSING
THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF SENTENCE PROCESSING

Summary/Abstract: Psycholinguistic investigations into such matters as sentence processing and discourse processing aimed to first identify whether during these processes the focus is on the deep or on the surface structure of sentences. Therefore, in order to formulate sound principles of sentence processing, psycholinguists studied the ways in which people process various instances of syntactic ambiguity and, especially, temporary ambiguity. Psycholinguistic theoretical accounts of sentence processing have been, until recently, dominated by two separate trends: the structure-based models and the constraint-based models. These have lately come under scrutiny and new models have been devised in an attempt to more accurately describe the sentence comprehension techniques employed by language users.

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