ABSTRACT
Chomsky's approach to the study oflanguage (Chomsky, 1957) was an important in this respect as it was for the development of cognitive science in general. His followers quickly transcended his limited focus on the sentence level and syntax (e.g., the "text grammar" approach of van Dijk, 1972; the emphasis on semantics, as in Fillmore, 1968). Shortly thereafter, the interest in naturallanguage processing within the new artificialintelligence (AI) community began to have a powerful impact on the study of text comprehension (e.g., Schank, 1972), in part by reestablishing the central role of the schema concept. A third determining influence came from the information-processing psychology that was developing at the same time (Anderson & Bower, 1972; Kintsch, 1974: Norman & Rumelhart, 1975).
