Grammatical encoding is the process of taking in a pre-verbal message (the “mental concept” as it exists prior to describing it with words) and producing surface structures as output based on the activation and usage of singular and syntactic words and their “rules” as are held in the mental lexicon (the mental vocabulary).
Each and every word that we use has syntactic rules attached to it that determine how it interacts with other words. The rule are interactive in themselves, meaning that they can change depending on what rules they are presently attached to as a result of being placed in junction with another word. The words have a left to right ordering and are incrementally generated from the pre-verbal message. These syntactic words are called “lemmas” for short.
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This, my friends is how grammatical encoding occurs within the speakers mind. In my next post we will talk about the actual morpho-phonological encoding of speech. Until next time…
