The Double R Theory of Language Comprehension

Double R Grammar is a linguistic theory of the grammatical encoding and integration of referential and relational meaning in English. Double R Grammar is fundamentally a Cognitive Linguistic theory (Langacker, 1987, 1991; Lakoff, 1988; Talmy, 2003) and the use of the term “grammar” encompasses both meaning and structure as it does in Cognitive Grammar (also known as Cognitive Semantics). Double R Process is a psycholinguistic theory of the processing of English text into Double R Grammar based representations. Double R Process is a highly interactive, bottom-up, lexically driven theory of language processing that is highly compatible with Kintsch’s Construction-Integration Theory (Kintsch, 1998). Double R Theory is used to refer generally to Double R Grammar and Double R Process. Double R Model is a computational psycholinguistic implementation of Double R Theory using the Atomic Components of Thought – Rational (ACT-R) cognitive architecture and modeling environment (Anderson & LeBiere, 1998; Anderson et al., 2002). Double R Model is intended to validate the representation and processing commitments of Double R Theory and to form the basis for the development of largescale, functional language processing systems.