On understanding and creating sentences.

Abstract

"Can our psychological theories incorporate and render comprehensible the way human beings understand and create sentences?" Major sections are: The Problem, Neo-Behaviorism and Psycholinguistics, Decision and Control in Behavior, Components of a Theory of the Sentence, The Question of Sufficiency. Phrase structure analysis, a hypothetical sentence machine, a 2-stage mediation model, a 3-stage mediation-integration model, units of decoding and encoding, the integration of sequential and simultaneous hierarchies of language units are considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)