In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on
language performance and proposes a model of production and
comprehension. Although recent developments in linguistics are
taken into account, consideration of other requirements of a
performance model leads to the conclusion that the grammar the
speaker has in mind differs from the grammar as currently conceived
of by most linguists. The author is also critical of recent
computer simulations of language performance on the basis that they
fall short of describing what goes on in human production and
comprehension. The author therefore proposes that the basic issues
must be rethought and new theoretical foundations reformulated, in
order to arrive at a viable theory of language functioning. In
developing the framework of the model presented in this book,
requirements of flexibility in the performance mechanisms, the
probabilistic nature of comprehension processes, and the
interleaving of linguistic rules with context and knowledge of the
world are emphasized.
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