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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Sentence Comprehension and Production

A sentence is a grammatical unit that is composed of one or more clauses.In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language. It is often defined as a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request, command or suggestion. A sentence can also be defined in orthographic terms alone, i.e., as anything which is contained between a capital letter and a full stop.A sentence can also be defined in orthographic terms alone, i.e., as anything which is contained between a capital letter and a full stop.
As with all language expressions, sentences may contain both function and content words, and contain properties distinct to natural language, such as characteristic intonation and timing patterns. Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verb.
Comprehension is sense that a listener feels from the speaker, and takes the interpretation from what the speaker and put it away in my mind, then we cultivate it, and we make a conclusion with the suspense whether good respond or bad.
Sentence comprehension is concerned with how people obtain a particular syntactic analysis for a string of words and assign an interpretation to that analysis. Thus, it is not principally concerned with word recognition, morphological processing, anaphoric resolution, figuratice language, discourse coherence, and inferencing in general (see other chapters).Very roughly, it concentrates on those aspects language comprehension that draw upon the rules and representations that are studied within generative grammar. However, it is important to strees that the goal of this process is to obtain an interpretation for a string words, not simply to obtain a syntactic analysis.
The study of sentence production is the study of how speakers turn messages into utterances. Messages are communicative intentions, the things a speaker means to convey. Utterances are verbal formulations. Theory of sentence production is to explain how speakers use linguistic knowledge in the production of utterances. This requires a specification of the knowledge that speakers have and a specification of the information processing system in which the knowledge is put to use.

Resources:
Dardjowidjojo, Soenjono. (2003). Psikolinguistik: Pengantar Pemahaman Bahasa Manusia. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia anggota IKAPI.

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