Synopses & Reviews
The process of on-line recovery from errors in sentence comprehension is a new and lively focus of research activity in psycholinguistics. This volume offers chapters by experimental and theoretical psycholinguists who have been moving this research forward, sometimes in agreement with each other, sometimes developing opposing views. The experimental data and explanations presented here will interest linguists and psychologists, and all those concerned with how language is used, so rapidly and effectively, for communication. Language understanding is one of the foundational areas of cognitive science, and the research represented here may illuminate how the human mind is able to perform running repairs on its own computations. The material can be read with interest by graduate students and advanced undergraduates as well as practicing researchers.
Table of Contents
Preface.
1. Prosodic Influences on Reading Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences;
M. Bader. 2. Reanalysis Aspects of Movements;
M. de Vincenzi. 3. Syntactic Reanalysis, Thematic Processing, and Sentence Comprehension;
F. Ferreira, J.M. Henderson. 4. Attach Anyway;
J.D. Fodor, A. Inoue. 5. Sentence Reanalysis, and Visibility;
L. Frazier, C. Clifton, Jr. 6. Diagnosis and Reanalysis: Two Processing Aspects the Brain May Differentiate;
A.D. Friederici. 7. Syntactic Analysis and Reanalysis in Sentence Processing;
P. Gorrell. 8. Reanalysis and Limited Repair Parsing: Leaping off the Garden Path;
R.L. Lewis. 9. A Computational Model of Recovery;
V. Lombardo. 10. Parsing as Incremental Restructuring;
S. Stevenson. 11. Generalized Monotonicity for Reanalysis Models;
P. Sturt, M.W. Crocker.