Sentence processing
What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just some of the many questions that sentence-processing researchers have tried to answer by conducting ever more sophisticated experiments, making this one of the most productive and exciting areas in ex…
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- Full title :Sentence processing / edited by Roger P.G. van Gompel.
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What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just some of the many questions that sentence-processing researchers have tried to answer by conducting ever more sophisticated experiments, making this one of the most productive and exciting areas in experimental language research in recent years. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this critical field. It contains 10 chapters written by world-leading experts, which discuss influential theories of sentence processing and important experimental evidence, with a focus on recent developments in the area. The chapters analyse research that has explored how people process the structure and meaning of sentences, and how sentences are understood within their context. They also discuss studies that have investigated healthy monolingual adults as well as children, bilinguals and people with language impairments. This comprehensive and authoritative work will appeal to students and researchers in the field of sentence processing, and also to anyone with an interest in psychology and linguistics. Book jacket.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Psychology Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 272 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848720633, 1848720637, 9781848721319, 1848721315
- oclc:ocn825106441
- LC Classification:PE1441
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Sentence processing: an introduction / Roger P.G. van Gompel -- Syntax in sentence processing / Lyn Frazier -- Constraint-based models of sentence processing / Ken McRae and Kazunaga Matsuki -- Memory and surprisal in human sentence comprehension / Roger Levy -- Putting syntax in context / Michael J. Spivey, Sarah E. Anderson, and Thomas A. Farmer -- Syntactic constraints on referential processing / Patrick Sturt -- Semantic interpretation of sentences / Steven Frisson and Matthew J. Traxler -- Children's sentence processing / Jesse Snedeker -- Sentence processing in bilinguals / Leah Roberts -- Syntactically based sentence comprehension in aging and individuals with neurological disease / David Caplan.
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