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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 25.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Sep 5;18(11):605–611. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.08.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

A processing architecture under which default lexical information overrides syntactically derived meanings appears on the left side. Under these assumptions, syntax is computed and then ignored in favor of lexically derived meanings. The right side shows how a similar interpretive outcome could result if syntactic computations were foregone altogether.