- 288 pages
- English
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Sentence Processing
About this book
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 important 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 also analyse research that has investigated how people process the structure and meaning of sentences, and how sentences are understood within their context.
This comprehensive and authoritative work will appeal to students and researchers in the field of sentence processing, as well anyone with an interest in psychology and linguistics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Sentence processing: An introduction
- 2. Syntax in sentence processing
- 3. Constraint-based models of sentence processing
- 4. Memory and surprisal in human sentence comprehension
- 5. Putting syntax in context
- 6. Syntactic constraints on referential processing
- 7. Semantic interpretation of sentences
- 8. Children’s sentence processing
- 9. Sentence processing in bilinguals
- 10. Syntactically based sentence comprehension in aging and individuals with neurological disease
- Index