Modularity in Sentence Processing at the Syntactic Level
Ma Ming · Journal of Northeastern University · 2004
Despite its seeming simplicity, natural language understanding is a very complex process. After an account of the involved elements and their functions, two possible ways for the non-linguistic factors to participate in the understanding process are expounded. An analysis of the essential features of modular systems is followed by a detailed discussion on the modular theory and its interpretation of natural language understanding, sentence processing in particular. Modularity of sentence processing is verified by experimental data. Trend and focus of the research on sentence processing are anticipated.