[PDF] A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing | Semantic Scholar

The syntagmatic paradigmatic model is described and then illustrated on a number of phenomena, including sentence processing, semantic categorization and rating, short-term serial recall, and analogical and logical inference, and its success demonstrates that it is possible to extract propositional information from naturally occurring text without employing a grammar, defining a set of heuristics, or specifying a priori aSet of semantic roles.