Perspectives on Sentence Processing

by Clifton, Jr.; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780805815825
• ISBN10: 0805815821
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317780588
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres
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Summary

One of the liveliest forums for sharing psychological, linguistic, philosophical, and computer science perspectives on psycholinguistics has been the annual meeting of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Documenting the state of the art in several important approaches to sentence processing, this volume consists of selected papers that had been presented at the Sixth CUNY Conference. The editors not only present the main themes that ran through the conference but also honor the breadth of the presentations from disciplines including linguistics, experimental psychology, and computer science. The variety of sentence processing topics examined includes: * how evoked brain potentials reflect sentence comprehension * how auditory words are processed * how various sources of grammatical and nongrammatical information are coordinated and used * how sentence processing and language acquisition might be related. This distinctive volume not only presents the most exciting current work in sentence processing, but also places this research into the broader context of theorizing about it.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 12
Sentence Processing And The Brain	p. 13
Event-Related Brain Potentials as Tools for Comprehending Language Comprehension	p. 15
Acknowledgments	p. 40
References	p. 40
Brain Responses to Lexical Ambiguity Resolution and Parsing	p. 45
Acknowledgments	p. 78
References	p. 78
Phonological Processing	p. 81
Access to Phonological-Form Representations in Language Comprehension and Production	p. 83
References	p. 103
Vertical and Horizontal Similarity in Spoken-Word Recognition	p. 107
Acknowledgments	p. 119
References	p. 119
Syntactic Processing: Information Flow And Decision Making	p. 121
Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution as Lexical Ambiguity Resolution	p. 123
References	p. 150
Toward a Lexicalist Framework for Constraint- Based Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 176
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Psycholinguistic Constraints on Prepositional-Phrase Attachment	p. 181
References	p. 196
Unbounded Dependencies, Island Constraints, and Processing Complexity	p. 199
Acknowledgments	p. 222
References	p. 222
German Verb-Final Clauses and Sentence Processing: Evidence for Immediate Attachment	p. 225
References	p. 241
Syntactic Processing And Computational Models	p. 243
On the Nature of the Principle-Based Sentence Processor	p. 245
References	p. 264
A Processing Model for Free Word-Order Languages	p. 267
References	p. 300
Acknowledgments	p. 300
The Finite Connectivity of Linguistic Structure	p. 303
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Acknowledgments	p. 334
Referential Processing	p. 337
Resolving Pronouns and Other Anaphoric Devices: The Case for Diversity in Discourse Processing	p. 355
Conclusions	p. 359
References	p. 385
Acknowledgments	p. 385
The Use of Structural, Lexical, and Pragmatic Information in Parsing Attachment Ambiguities	p. 389
References	p. 411
Acknowledgments	p. 411
References	p. 434
References	p. 437
References	p. 437
Sentence Processing And Language Acquisition	p. 441
Learning, Parsing, and Modularity	p. 443
References	p. 466
Author Index	p. 469
Subject Index	p. 477
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