Plans and Semantics in Human Processing of Language |
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| Authors: | Henry Hamburger Stephen Crain |
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| Affiliation: | 1. BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain;2. Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain;3. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain;4. University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;1. Neurocenter, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland;2. Perception and Eye Movement Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, and Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland;3. ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;4. University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, Birmingham, United Kingdom;1. Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;2. Biolingüística, University of Oviedo, Spain;3. Department of Basic Psychology & Speech Therapy Clinic University of Valencia, Spain;4. Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, The Netherlands;1. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;2. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway;3. Department of Neurosurgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway;4. Psychology Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;1. VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240, United States;2. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, 3939 O''Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States |
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| Abstract: | The analogy between humans and computers as language processors has previously been exploited primarily with respect to the parsing or analysis phase of processing, as opposed to a synthesis phrase. Here we pursue the analogy on the synthesis side by positing cognitive algorithms that correspond to target language code generated by a compiler. We consider the computational resource demands of these cognitive algorithms and compare them to what is required to carry out syntactic and semantic processing. It is argued that cognitive demands are responsible for certain empirical results in developmental psycholinguistics that have previously been attributed to syntactic complexity. The analysis suggests new empirical studies whose results, in turn, provide support for the analysis. |
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