1st Edition

Language Processing

Edited By Simon Garrod, Martin Pickering Copyright 1999
    446 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    446 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    Language Processing questions what happens when we process language - what mental operations occur during processing and how they are organised over time. The last decade has seen real advances in the study of language processing that have wide ranging implications for human cognition in general. Language Processing gives an account of these developments both as they relate to experimental studies of processing and as they relate to computational modelling of the processes. In addition to chapters covering core topics, such as lexical processing, syntactic parsing and the comprehension of discourse, special topics of recent interest are also included.

    1: Issues in language processing; 1: Lexical processing; 2: Attentional control of lexical processing pathways during word recognition and reading; 3: Lexical semantic processing during speech comprehension; 4: Abstractness and combination: The morphemic lexicon; 2: Syntactic processing; 5: Sentence comprehension; 6: Prosody and language processing; 3: Computational issues in language processing; 7: Mechanisms for sentence processing; 8: Connectionism and natural language processing; 4: Semantic and discourse processing; 9: Three models of discourse comprehension; 10: Word meaning and discourse processing: A tutorial review; 11: Reference and anaphora; 5: Language production and dialogue processing; 12: Language production; 13: The challenge of dialogue for theories of language processing

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    Simon Garrod, Martin Pickering