ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the properties of strings of words; that is, sentences and groups of sentences. It discusses how reader gains access to the meaning of individual words and turn to the more complicated question of how unique combinations of words give rise to their own particular meaning. The point to be made is that one need not know vocabulary of formal syntax to be aware of structure of sentences, any more, that is, than one needs the plans of a house to be able to live in it. In the case of sentences the priming effects are even more tightly controlled. Priming takes place only for concepts that relate to the meaning of the sentence as a whole. It is important to appreciate that this has little to do with the form of the sentence – the individual words – and a great deal to do with the state of affairs in the world that the sentence asserts.
