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Author : Maryellen C. MacDonald
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 086377962X
The papers in this special issue reflect the increased status on lexical representations in sentence processing research.
Author : Paola Merlo,Suzanne Stevenson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297488
Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The focus of this stimulating volume is on a number of central topics: The discussion of foundational issues concerning the nature of the lexicon and its relationship to sentence understanding; the exploration of the relationship between syntactic and lexical processing; and the investigation of the specific content of lexical entries, especially for verbs. The authors draw on a range of methodologies, from computational modeling to corpus studies to behavioral and neuro-imaging experimental techniques. The breadth of topics and methodologies is brought together by the articulated, critical analysis of the field provided in the introduction. The research reported here elaborates both the structure and the probabilistic content of lexical representations, and meets up with work in computer science, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy on the relation between conceptual, grammatical, and statistical knowledge.
Author : William Marslen-Wilson,Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands),Interfacultaire werkgroep taal- en spraakgedrag (Nimègue, Pays-Bas)
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262631423
The 18 contributions in Lexical Representation and Process provide a coherent and well-documented frame of reference for a field of study that is becoming central to both linguistics and psycholinguistics.
Author : Charles Clifton, Jr.,Lyn Frazier,Keith Rayner,Charles Clifton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317780595
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.
Author : G.B. Simpson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080867316
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.
Author : Simon Garrod,Martin Pickering
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317715375
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.
Author : Edith L. Bavin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107605423
The best survey of the subject available, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other handbook on the market, with chapters covering both theories and methods in child language research and tracing the development of language from prelinguistic infancy to teenager. Drawing on both established and more recent research, the Handbook surveys the crosslinguistic study of language acquisition; prelinguistic development; bilingualism; sign languages; specific language impairment, language and autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. This book will be an essential reference for students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology.
Author : William Marslen-Wilson
Publisher : Bradford Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262132400
Lexical Representation and Process is the first collection to cover the full range of lexical representations and their role in language processing.
Author : J. Fodor,Fernanda Ferreira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0792350995
The topic addressed in this volume lies within the study of sentence processing, which is one of the major divisions of psycholinguistics. The goal has been to understand the structure and functioning of the mental mechanisms involved in sentence comprehension. Most of the experimental and theoretical work during the last twenty or thirty years has focused on 'first-pass parsing', the process of assigning structure to a sentence as its words are encountered, one at a time, 'from left to right' . One important guiding idea has been to delineate the processing mechanisms by studying where they fai!. For this purpose we identify types of sentences which perceivers have trouble assigning structure to. An important class of perceptually difficult senten ces are those which contain temporary ambiguities. Since the parsing mechanism cannot tell what the intended structure is, it may make an incorrect guess. Then later on in the sentence, the structure assignment process breaks down, because the later words do not fit with the incorrect structural analysis. This is called a 'garden path' situation. When it occurs, the parsing mechanism must somehow correct itself, and find a different analysis which is compatible with the incoming words. This reanalysis process is the subject of the research reported here.
Author : Roberto Heredia,J. Altarriba
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080500099
Bilingual Sentence Processing
Author : Manuel Carreiras,Jos‚ E. Garc¡a-Albea,N£ria Sebasti n-Gall‚s,Jose E. Garcia-Albea,Nuria Sebastian-Galles
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134790029
This book presents a set of contributions to the current flow of psycholinguistic research, with new and challenging data gathered from Spanish that may illuminate issues about the generality of language processing models. Although it is possible to find a considerable amount of papers on psycholinguistic research with the Spanish language published in English-speaking journals, unfortunately, the scientific community does not have access to an overview of psycholinguistics in Spain. This book overcomes these limitations because it brings together state-of-the-art descriptions of the research and theory of the different subareas of psycholinguistics currently being studied in Spain. Spanish, the third most widely-used language in the world, differs from English in a number of important respects. Since English has been predominant in psycholinguistic research, contrasting properties of Spanish may help to test the generality of language processing mechanisms and to refine their description. The set of contrasting features considered in this book includes acoustical and syllabic transparency, shallow orthography, a much richer morphology, flexibility in word order, less variability in intonational contours, and the existence of null pronominal subjects for inflected verbs. There are also interesting contrasts in the frequency of different linguistic units, whose impact on language processing is also evaluated. One of the main lines of argument throughout this book deals with the tension between universality and variation as a way of characterizing the functioning of language capacities and processes. The variety of topics covered by this book ranges from one end of the spectrum of language related behavior to the other: speech perception, lexical access in word recognition, relations between phonological and orthographic representations, sentence processing, discourse comprehension, and language production. All chapters focus on questions of general interest within each topic, and in most cases they appeal to one particular feature of the Spanish language that is relevant for a given question. Most chapters show the indisputable importance of crosslinguistic research in psycholinguistics to improve understanding on whether universal cognitive mechanisms and language specific routines underlie the ability of understanding and producing language.
Author : M. Gareth Gaskell,Pienie Zwitserlood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110224924
This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes, the processes operating on the speech input to gain access to lexical representations, the modeling and acquisition of these processes, and on the neural underpinnings of lexical representation and process.
Author : Gary Libben,Gonia Jarema
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191536489
This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words. It shows the insights this work offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory. Compounding is an easy and effective way to create and transfer meanings. By building new lexical items based on the meanings of existing items, compounds can usually be understood on first presentation, though - as, say, breadboard, cardboard, cupboard, and sandwich-board show - the rules governing the relations between the components' meanings are not always straightforward. Compound words are segmentable into their constituent morphemes in much the same way as sentences can be divided into their constituent words: children and adults would not otherwise find them interpretable. But compound sequences may also be independent lexical items that can be retrieved for production as single entities and whose idiosyncratic meanings are stored in the mind. Compound words reflect the properties both of linguistic representation in the mind and of grammatical processing. They thus offer opportunities for investigating key aspects of the mental operations involved in language: for example, the interplay between storage and computation; the manner in which morphological and semantic factors impact on the nature of storage; and the way the mind's computational processes serve on-line language comprehension and production. This book explores the nature of these opportunities, assesses what is known, and considers what may yet be discovered and how.
Author : Gonia Jarema,Gary Libben
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267924
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they may need to identify words on the basis of sounds that are difficult to differentiate. This book brings together psycholinguistic research that addresses these topics and highlights how the study of spoken word processing can shed light on fundamental dynamics of language processing. It demonstrates how spoken word processing is affected by the specific characteristics of individual languages and their writing systems and how it grows and changes across the lifespan. The book offers new cutting-edge research on spoken word processing. It will benefit researchers and students interested in language processing as well as readers who wish to broaden their understanding of language in the mind. In particular, this book underlines the value of conducting psycholinguistic research across languages and across the lifespan. Originally published in The Mental Lexicon Vol. 8:3 (2013).
Author : William Marslen-Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0262279177
Part 1 Psychological models of lexical processing: access and integration - projecting sound onto meaning, William Marslen-Wilson; visual word recognition and pronunciation - a computational model and its implications, Mark S. Seidenberg; basic issues in lexical processing, Kenneth I. Forster; lexical access in speech production, Brian Butterworth; the retrieval of phonological forms in production - test of predictions from a connectionist model, Gary S. Dell. Part 2 The nature of the input: review of selected models of speech perception, Dennis H. Klatt; connectionist approaches to acoustic phonetic processing, Jeffrey L. Elman; parafoveal preview effects and lexical access during eye fixations in reading, Keith Rayner and David A. Balota; reading and the mental lexicon - on the uptake of visual information, Derek Besner and James C. Johnston. Part 3 Lexical structure and process: understanding words and word recognition - can phonology help?, Uli H. Frauenfelder and Aditi Lahiri; auditory lexical access - where do we start?, Anne Cutler; on mental representation of morphology and its diagnosis by measures of visual access speed, Leslie Henderson; morphological parsing and the lexicon, Jorge Hankamer; psycholinguistic issues in the lexical representation of meaning, Robert Schreuder and Giovanni B. Flores D'Arcais. Part 4 Parsing and interpretation: the role of lexical representation in language comprehension, Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler; grammar, interpretation and processing from the lexicon, Mark J. Steedman; against lexical generation of syntax, Lyn Frazier; lexical structure and language comprehension, Michael K. Tanenhaus and Greg N. Carlson.