Language Processing and Models

Ms. Amany AlKhayat

• Liinguitic processing theories have been made within a framework of information processing

In which stages of linguistic processing are made as separate linguistic modules such as syntactic module, semantic module, semantic module and discourse module.

• So, Do these modules oprate separately or do they influence each other?

• Would processing one module be influenced by ‘accessing simultaneously different kinds of knowledgestored in memory’ (Greene & Coulson 1995)

• This would lead to the question: How humans process knowledge?

Two main models

• Linear Model: separate stages carried out one at a time.

• Interactive model: processing involved in several modules can occur simultaneously, allowing different types of knowledge to interact. (linguistic and general knowledge)

Linear Model

• Each type of preocessin is completed before each next stage starts. Bottom up processing

Interactive model

• The various types of knowledge implicated in the processing modules are all available at the same time and can be brought in at any point to aid language understanding.

• It is cognitively efficient• Takes into account all relevant information

Methods of investigation

• Online processing• Delayed processing