Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations

Multilinear Grammar (MLG) is an approach to integrating the many different syntagmatic structures of language into a coherent architecture, the Rank-Interpretation Architecture. The architecture defines ranks from discourse structure through utterances, phrasal structures, word structures to speech sounds. Each rank has its own specific kind of prosodic-phonetic interpretation and semantic-pragmatic interpretation. Common to models of all these subdomains are models based on regular languages, and processors with finite working memory.