Abstract
A major problem for linguistic theory is that of specifying how the sounds of language relate to meaning. Although this problem is an exceedingly complex one, considerable progress has been made in formalizing grammars which, while incomplete, have provided a reasonable first account of the structure of natural language. These developments in linguistic theory, and in particular generative–transformational grammars, have had a profound effect on the psychological study of language, shifting the emphasis from the behavioristic studies of words to the analysis of sentence comprehension and production. More recently, following parallel developments in lingistics, psychologists have also turned their attention to units larger than the sentence, with a particular focus on text comprehension.
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