ABSTRACT
When the words in a sentence have been recognized and their syntactic categories retrieved from the mental lexicon, the language understanding system must compute the structural relations between those words, so that it can go on to determine the message that the sentence conveys. It should be stressed once again, however, that this sketch of the temporal relations between these processes is not meant to suggest that they operate in a strictly serial order. This point will be made clearer in chapter 8, where the question of interaction between subprocessors will be discussed in detail.
