Sentence Processing models

Question 1

How does Garett’s model explain sentence processing?

Answer 1

sentence production entails mulitple processing levels/stages

Question 2

What are the 5 stages/levels of the Garett’s model

Answer 2

1 – Message level: conceptual processing of event 
2 – Functional level
3 – Positional level
4 – phonetic encoding
5 – Articulation of the sentence

Question 3

Is the message level linguistic or non-linguistic? (Garett)

Answer 3

NON-linguistic processing of event being described

Question 4

What 2 things occur at the functional level (Garett)

Answer 4

1. Semantic lexical selection (choose verbs and nouns relating to the event)
2. creation of the predicate argument structure (assign roles)

Question 5

What takes place during the positional stage? (garett)

Answer 5

Phrase structure is specified (syntax tree) and phonology of words is retrieved

Question 6

During which stage are you preparing the sentence for articulation? (Garett)

Answer 6

phonetic encoding

Question 7

Which hypothesis explains sentence processing impairment as Difficulty assigning thematic roles to parsed sentence constituents

Answer 7

Mapping Deficit Hypothesis

Question 8

The Mapping hypothesis claims there is an impairment mapping relationships between _______ (abstract) and ________levels (syntactic)

Answer 8

functional

positional

Question 9

How does the mapping hypothesis explain issues with reversible sentences?

Answer 9

b/c they can’t use semantics alone have to rely on understanding of how the sentence is structured (and this is where the impairment exists)