Sentence Processing

Author : Roger P. G. van Gompel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135047269

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Sentence Processing by Roger P. G. van Gompel Pdf

What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just some of the many questions that sentence processing researchers have tried to answer by conducting ever more sophisticated experiments, making this one of the most productive and exciting areas in experimental language research in recent years. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this important field. It contains 10 chapters written by world-leading experts, which discuss influential theories of sentence processing and important experimental evidence, with a focus on recent developments in the area. The chapters also analyse research that has investigated how people process the structure and meaning of sentences, and how sentences are understood within their context. This comprehensive and authoritative work will appeal to students and researchers in the field of sentence processing, as well anyone with an interest in psychology and linguistics.

Author : J. Fodor,Fernanda Ferreira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0792350995

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Reanalysis in Sentence Processing by J. Fodor,Fernanda Ferreira Pdf

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 : Alan Juffs,Guillermo A. Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136217203

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Second Language Sentence Processing by Alan Juffs,Guillermo A. Rodríguez Pdf

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. The book begins with a broad overview of the core issues of second language sentence processing research and then narrows its focus by dedicating individual chapters to each of these key areas. While a number of publications have discussed research findings on knowledge of formal syntactic principles as part of theories of second language acquisition, there are fewer resources dedicated to the role of second language sentence processing in this context. This volume will act as the first full-length literature review of the field on the market.

Author : Charles Clifton, Jr.,Lyn Frazier,Keith Rayner,Charles Clifton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317780595

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Perspectives on Sentence Processing by Charles Clifton, Jr.,Lyn Frazier,Keith Rayner,Charles Clifton Pdf

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 : Eva M. Fernández
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296788

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Bilingual Sentence Processing by Eva M. Fernández Pdf

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review of existing research on relative clause attachment, showing that speakers of languages like English attach relative clauses differently than do speakers of languages like Spanish. Fernández reports the findings of an investigation with monolinguals and bilinguals, tested using speeded ("on-line") and unspeeded ("off-line") methodology, with materials in both English and Spanish. The experiments reveal similarities across the groups when the procedure is speeded, but differences with unspeeded questionnaires: The monolinguals replicate the standard cross-linguistic differences, while bilinguals have language-independent preferences determined by language dominance — bilinguals process stimuli in either of their languages according to the general preferences of monolinguals of their dominant language.

Author : Roberto Heredia,J. Altarriba
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080500099

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Bilingual Sentence Processing by Roberto Heredia,J. Altarriba Pdf

Bilingual Sentence Processing

Author : Dieter Hillert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585492230

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Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective by Dieter Hillert Pdf

Provides an overview of the fundamental psycholinguistic topics involved in sentence processing. Proposing a cross-linguistic approach, this book offers a theory that characterizes universal cognitive features of the human language processor, independent of a single language structure. It addresses word recognition, fixed expressions, and more.

Author : Maryellen C. MacDonald
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 086377962X

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Lexical Representations and Sentence Processing by Maryellen C. MacDonald Pdf

The papers in this special issue reflect the increased status on lexical representations in sentence processing research.

Author : Reiko Mazuka,Noriko Nagai
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134770212

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Japanese Sentence Processing by Reiko Mazuka,Noriko Nagai Pdf

This volume is a direct result of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Processing held at Duke University. The symposium provided the first opportunity for researchers in three disciplinary areas from both Japan and the United States to participate in a conference where they could discuss issues concerning Japanese syntactic processing. The goals of the symposium were three-fold: * to illuminate the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing from the viewpoints of linguistics, psycholinguistics and computer science; * to synthesize findings about the mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing by researchers in these three fields in Japan and the United States; * to lay foundations for future interdisciplinary research in Japanese sentence processing, as well as international collaborations between researchers in Japan and the United States. The chapters in this volume have been written from the points of view of three different disciplines, with various immediate objectives -- from building usable speech understanding systems to investigating the nature of competence grammars for natural languages. All of the papers share the long term goal of understanding the nature of human language processing mechanisms. The book is concerned with two central issues -- the universality of language processing mechanisms, and the nature of the relation between the components of linguistic knowledge and language processing. This volume demonstrates that interdisciplinary research can be fruitful, and provides groundwork for further research in Japanese sentence processing.

Author : J. Fodor,Fernanda Ferreira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401590709

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Reanalysis in Sentence Processing by J. Fodor,Fernanda Ferreira Pdf

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 : Alan Juffs,Guillermo A. Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136217210

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Second Language Sentence Processing by Alan Juffs,Guillermo A. Rodríguez Pdf

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. The book begins with a broad overview of the core issues of second language sentence processing research and then narrows its focus by dedicating individual chapters to each of these key areas. While a number of publications have discussed research findings on knowledge of formal syntactic principles as part of theories of second language acquisition, there are fewer resources dedicated to the role of second language sentence processing in this context. This volume will act as the first full-length literature review of the field on the market.

Author : Paola Merlo,Suzanne Stevenson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027249876

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The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing by Paola Merlo,Suzanne Stevenson Pdf

This volume highlights current theories of the lexicon from the perspective of its use in sentence understanding. It includes work from researchers in psycholinguistic studies on sentence comprehension.

Author : Sam Featherston
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227640

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Empty Categories in Sentence Processing by Sam Featherston Pdf

Annotation Featherston (Eberhard-Karls-U., Tubingen) presents the results of three experiments on the role of empty categories--phonetically null place-holders for locally absent constituents--in sentence processing. The experiments used probe recognition, sentence matching, and event-related potentials, as well as self-paced reading. Coverage includes a discussion of the predictions of both Principles and Parameters Theory and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131716724

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Speech & Language Processing by Dan Jurafsky Pdf

Author : David J. Townsend,Thomas G. Bever
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262700808

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Sentence Comprehension by David J. Townsend,Thomas G. Bever Pdf

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumulated habits. The authors argue that the sentence is the natural level at which associative and symbolic information merge during comprehension. The authors develop and support an analysis-by-synthesis model that integrates associative and symbolic information in sentence comprehension. This integration resolves problems each approach faces when considered independently. The authors review classic and contemporary symbolic and associative theories of sentence comprehension, and show how recent developments in syntactic theory fit well with the integrated analysis-by-synthesis model. They offer analytic, experimental, and neurological evidence for their model and discuss its implications for broader issues in cognitive science, including the logical necessity of an integration of symbolic and connectionist approaches in the field.