A psycholinguistically and neurolinguistically plausible system-level model of natural-language syntax processing

We describe a psycholinguistically and neurolinguistically plausible model of natural-language processing by the human brain. This model is based on the work of Gerard Kempen and coworkers at Leiden and Nijmegen who have developed computational models of language generation and of language recognition. We show how to use our own brain modeling approach to develop a neurolinguistically plausible model based on the Kempen psycholinguistic model. Our model is implemented as a set of inter-communicating brain modules that run in parallel. These brain modules have the same structure and control regime as other nonlinguistic brain modules. They approximately correspond to Broca's and temporal lobe areas. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.