Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Issues in language processing /Simon Garrod and Martin J. Pickering --Attentional control of lexical processing pathways during word recognition and reading /David A. Balota, Stephen T. Paul and Daniel H. Spieler --Lexical semantic processing during speech /Helen E. Moss and M. Gareth Gaskell --Abstractions and combination : morphemic lexicon /William Marslen-Wilson --Sentence comprehension /Martin J. Pickering --Prosody and language processing /Paul Warren --Mechanisms for sentence processing /Matthew W. Crocker --Connectionism and natural language processing /Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen --Three models of discourse comprehension /Morton ann Gernsbacher and Julie A. Foertsch --Word meaning and discourse processing : tutorial review /Anthony J. Sanford --Reference and anaphora /Alan Garnham --Language production /Kathryn Bock and John Huitema --Challenge of dialogue for theories of language processing /Simon Garrod.