LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

目前的建议解决了人们如何理解的问题 他们读到或听到的句子。 其长期目标是发展一个 关于人们如何运用语言知识构建世界的理论 转化为可以被语义解释的心理表征。 的 拟议的研究旨在揭示支配 读者和听者在句子分析中对语法信息的使用， 并以这些原则将形成一个 支配认知的原则的不同子集。 拟议的研究涉及三个具体专题： 短语结构分析原理的跨语言适用性 我们的同事在以前的研究中已经确定;（B）可能的 论元短语和附加短语在语言表达上的差异 解析;及（c）心理表征的性质 在句子理解过程中构建的句子。 的 研究将使用各种实验技术，测试正常 成年人阅读句子的速度， 他们对句子做出判断的准确性， 阅读或听句子对同时进行的任务的影响 阅读或听。 我们的研究旨在为发展 心理语言学理论 心理语言学理论的最新进展 对语言障碍的分析产生了重大影响，特别是 失语症 我们期待着这些新的分析将导致 我们希望能为心理语言学做出贡献 这一理论促进了我们对语言障碍的理解。

The present proposal addresses the question of how people comprehend sentences that they read or hear. Its long-range goal is to develop a theory of how people use knowledge of their language to structure world into mental representation that can then be interpreted semantically. The proposed research is designed to uncover the principles that govern readers' and listeners' use of grammatical information in sentence parsing, and is predicated upon the assumption that these principles will form a distinct subset of the principles that govern cognition in general. Three specific topics are addressed in the proposed research: (a) the applicability across languages of principles of phrase structure parsing we and our colleagues have identified in previous research; (b) the possible existence of differences in how argument phrases and adjunct phrases are parsed; and (c) the nature of the mental representation or representations of a sentence that are constructed during sentence comprehension. The research will use a variety of experimental techniques, testing normal adult humans on the speed with which they read sentences, the speed and accuracy with which they make judgments about sentences, and the effects that reading or hearing sentences have upon tasks performed concurrently with reading or listening. Our research is designed to contribute to the development of psycholinguistic theory. Recent advances in psycholinguistic theory have had a major impact on the analysis of language disorders, especially the aphasias. We look forward to the time when these new analyses will lead to improved treatments and we hope to contribute to the psycholinguistic theory that fuels the increase in our understanding of language disorders.