Language Generation (Human Cognitive Functions)

This is the last posting of explaining the figure on human cognitive functions. Today's topic is Language Generation.

Language Generation is the process in which a network of association (or a semantic network) is mapped to syntactic structure (phrase structure).  The choice of a part of the network to be uttered leads to the generation of a syntactic structure and a linear phonetic representation.  Generated phonetic representation (image) may be 'parsed back' to semantic/pragmatic representation so that its effects are evaluated.  The process is thought to be a special case of planning, though the processing of syntactic structure would be automatically processed in a specialized module as in the case of parsing.