ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION This is a chapter about cognitive architecture, i.e. the architecture of the representational states and processes of a cognitive system (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988, p. 10). At present, two types of architecture are under discussion: the classical architectures of symbolic rule systems and the connectionist architec tures of interactive units. Net-linguistic systems that have been developed in recent years (see Schnelle, 1981; 1988a; 1988b; for an overview) also have a connectionist architecture even though they are intended as definitional variants of symbolic rule systems. It is our belief that notation is secondary for the content of a linguistic system: Linguistic structure should, for instance, be conceived as a fundamentally abstract entity that can, however, be presented notationally in different ways.
