In cognitive linguistics an important aspect of developing processing strategies is that these strategies should be capable of modelling the humans behaviour in processing natural language. Therefore, an important task is to validate a proposed model by means of psychological experiments. However, this task - so far has I know - has only be done either for cognitive parsing or cognitive generation, but not under the assumption of uniform processing. Nevertheless, it is interesting enough to compare our approach with those approaches that model grammatical processing under a cognitive perspective. We first consider cognitive parsing. We will use the new work presented in [Hemforth1993] as our primarily basis for the discussion. We then discuss important aspects of cognitive generation.
It is important to emphasize at this point, that we do not claim cognitive plausibility of our uniform computational model, because we have not made psycholinguistic experiments that would support such a claim. Nevertheless, we have found out some interesting similarities with currently developed cognitive models so that it is legitimate to discuss the uniform model under a cognitive perspective.