Understanding Word and Sentence
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Understanding Word and Sentence

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Understanding Word and Sentence

About this book

Research concerning structure and processing in the mental lexicon has achieved central prominence within cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Historically, however, much of the research on the lexicon focussed not on its role in language comprehension, but as a medium for studying semantic memory. This picture has changed in recent years, with much more research examining the role of lexical processes and output in language comprehension.Gathered together in this volume is the work of some of those researchers who are responsible for this shift of emphasis. Chapters deal with the role of sentence contexts in word recognition, processes involved in the activation and enhancement of lexical information, and the interaction of lexical and syntactic information in sentence processing. A wide range of theoretical and empirical issues relating to language understanding are discussed.

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Information

Publisher
North Holland
Year
1991
Print ISBN
9780444884879
eBook ISBN
9780080867311
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Understanding Word and Sentence
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contributors
  9. Chapter 1. Understanding Words in Context
  10. Chapter 2. Contextual Constraint and Lexical Processing
  11. Chapter 3. Contextual Feature Activation and Meaning Access
  12. Chapter 4. A Perspective on Sentence Context Research
  13. Chapter 5. The Role of Suppression in Sentence Comprehension
  14. Chapter 6. Electrophysiological Evidence for the Flexibility of Lexical Processing
  15. Chapter 7. Comprehension Processes in Reading Ambiguous Sentences: Reflections from Eye Movements
  16. Chapter 8. The Role of Knowledge in Comprehension: A Cognitive Control Perspective
  17. Chapter 9. Understanding Idiomatic Expressions: The Contribution of Word Meanings
  18. Chapter 10. On the Combinatorial Semantics of Noun Pairs: Minor and Major Adjustments to Meaning
  19. Chapter 11. Making Sentences Make Sense, or Words to That Effect
  20. Chapter 12. How is Verb Information Used During Syntactic Parsing?
  21. Chapter 13. The Role of Lexical Representations in Sentence Processing
  22. Chapter 14. The Resolution of Indeterminacy During Language Comprehension: Perspectives on Modularity in Lexical, Structural and Pragmatic Processing
  23. Author Index
  24. Subject Index

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