Humans use their linguistic knowledge in at least two ways: on the one hand, to convey what they mean to others or to themselves, and on the other hand, to understand what others say or what they themselves say. In either case, they must assemble the syntactic structures of sentences in a systematic fashion, in accordance with the grammar of their language. In this article, we advance the view that a single mechanism for building sentence structure may be sufficient for structure building in comprehension and production. We argue that differing behaviors reduce to differences in the available information in either task. This view has broad implications for the architecture of the human language system and provides a useful framework for integrating largely independent research programs on comprehension and production by both constraining the models and uncovering new questions that can drive further research.

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解析与生成之间的关系

人类至少以两种方式使用他们的语言知识：一方面，向他人或自己传达自己的意思；另一方面，向他人传达自己的意思。无论哪种情况，他们都必须根据其语言的语法，以系统的方式组合句子的句法结构。在本文中，我们提出这样一种观点，即构建句子结构的单一机制对于理解和生产中的结构构建可能就足够了。我们认为，不同的行为会减少任一任务中可用信息的差异。