Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Planning utterances
- Chapter 3 Finding words
- Chapter 4 Building words
- Chapter 5 Monitoring and repair
- Chapter 6 The use of gesture
- Chapter 7 Perception for language
- Chapter 8 Spoken word recognition
- Chapter 9 Visual word recognition
- Chapter 10 Syntactic sentence processing
- Chapter 11 Interpreting sentences
- Chapter 12 Making connections
- Chapter 13 Architecture of the language processing system
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 13 - Architecture of the language processing system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Planning utterances
- Chapter 3 Finding words
- Chapter 4 Building words
- Chapter 5 Monitoring and repair
- Chapter 6 The use of gesture
- Chapter 7 Perception for language
- Chapter 8 Spoken word recognition
- Chapter 9 Visual word recognition
- Chapter 10 Syntactic sentence processing
- Chapter 11 Interpreting sentences
- Chapter 12 Making connections
- Chapter 13 Architecture of the language processing system
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
PREVIEW
This chapter provides both a retrospective view over the material in the book as a whole and an opportunity to see some of the links between the various components of the language production and comprehension systems that have been presented. It also looks at the links between the language system and other knowledge systems. By the end of the chapter you should have a better understanding of, amongst other things:
the relationship between the production and comprehension processes, particularly with reference to lexical processing;
the relationship between visual and spoken language processing;
the notion that there may be processing modules responsible for specific types of linguistic processing;
the fact that researchers take differing views on the relationships of such modules to one another and to non-linguistic processing.
Introduction
The preceding chapters of this book have presented an overview of key aspects of language processing in connection with a number of areas of language structure. For example, there have been chapters on the construction of sentences during production, on the selection of words for output, and on the morphological and phonological construction of words. There have been chapters on spoken word recognition, on visual word recognition and on the processing of sentences during comprehension. On occasion, links have been made between these chapters and between the findings discussed within them. In the current chapter, we will look briefly at the relationships between these component parts of language processing, as well as the relationship between language processing and other cognitive activities. The purpose is to provide a preliminary sketch of the architecture of the language processing system, and to indicate some of the connections that exist between some of the component parts.
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- Introducing Psycholinguistics , pp. 217 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012