Sentence examples for discourse processing from inspiring English sources

It processes data through Lexical analysis, Syntax analysis, Semantic analysis, Discourse processing and Pragmatic analysis.

Lexical semantic processing and discourse processing are therefore initially independent of each other.

The cognitive model operationalizes the discourse processing model developed by Kintsch and van Dijk.

These results support the modular, syntax-first theories for lexical and discourse processing.

Higher levels of discourse processing evoke patterns of cognition and brain activation that extend beyond the literal comprehension of sentences.

If lexical processing and discourse processing have an interactive relation, we would expect early contextual influence on semantic activation.

The results of this experiment support a discourse-processing-based distance metric for computing locality and provide evidence against a pure similarity-based account of structural complexity such as proposed by Bever (Bever, T. G. (1970).

Within particular models of speech processing, it has been claimed that auditory processing, even at the level of early sensory analysis of the speech signal, is affected by top-down constraints from lexical and discourse processes [ 20– 20].

Although we included this and subtests from the BDAE (including the Cookie Theft description) as assessments of discourse level processing, the focus of our analysis in this study was on deficits at the single word processing level, as these are the building blocks of language and involve tasks that are sensitive to residual abilities even in severe cases (Henseler et al., 2014).

Proficiency seems to drive many of the neural differences that occur between languages for single words, but it remains unknown whether non-classical language areas are recruited to a greater extent for later learned languages (or even later learned words), or for sentence and discourse level processing in the less proficient language.

All this eases processing so that attention can be allocated to parts of the discourse that are less formulaic and therefore less predictable.