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Syntactic Comprehension: History
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Syntactic comprehension refers to the cognitive and linguistic process through which a language user derives the structural organization and grammatical relations of a sentence in order to construct its meaning [1]. It involves the analysis of syntactic information, including the arrangement of constituents, hierarchical relationships among elements, and grammatical dependencies within a linguistic expression [2]. Syntactic comprehension is distinguished from general language comprehension by its specific focus on the processing and interpretation of sentence structure rather than broader aspects of meaning construction, such as lexical access or discourse-level interpretation [1].

  • sentence processing
  • syntax
  • grammatical parsing
  • language comprehension

References

  1. Traxler, Matthew J. Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science; Wiley-Blackwell.: Oxford, UK., 2012.
  2. Frazier, L. Sentence processing: A tutorial review. In M. Coltheart (Ed.), Attention and performance 12: The psychology of reading; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ, USA., 1987.
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