Sentence processing : : a crosslinguistic perspective / / edited by Dieter Hillert.

• Superior document: Syntax and semantics ; v. 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Hillert, Dieter.
• Place / Publishing House: San Diego : : Academic Press.; c1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Syntax and Semantics 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The innovative element of this volume is its overview of the fundamental psycholinguistic topics involved in sentence processing. While most psycholinguistic studies focus on a single language and induce a general model of universal sentence processing, this volume proposes a cross-linguistic approach. It contains two distinct features first embraced in the 18th century by brothers Freiherr Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt. First, it offers a linguistic theory that characterizes universal cognitive features of the human language processor (or the mind and its biological source), independent of a single language structure. Second, it contains a language theory which considers the diversity of linguistic structures and provides a powerful theory of language processing. Contributors cover a wide range of topics, including word recognition, fixed expressions, grammatical constraints, empty categories, and parsing. Their research involves analyses of 12 languages. This book provides an overview of central psycholinguistic topics in sentence processing; and combines deductive and inductive methods in fashioning an innovative approach. The contributors address word recognition, fixed expressions, grammatical constraints, empty categories, and parsing. Its original papers form a coherent presentation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Dieter Hillert -- From Alexander To Wilhelm Von Humboldt: A Crosslinguistic Perspective / Dieter Hillert -- Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Languages, Tasks, And Timing / Kathleen V. Ahrens -- Crosslinguistic Variation And Sentence Processing: The Case Of Chinese / Ping Li -- Comprehension Repair In The Processing Of A Short Oral Discourse Involving A Lexically Ambiguous Word / Giyoo Hatano and Keiko Kuhara-Kojima -- Ambiguity Of Reanalysis In Parsing Complex Sentences In Japanese / Yuki Hirose and Atsu Inoue -- The Processing Of Empty Subjects In English And Japanese / Tsutomu Sakamoto and Matthew Walenski -- The Production Of Agreement In English And Japanese: Animacy Effects {Or Lack Thereof) / Janet L. Nicol -- Context-Independent Sentence Processing / Susan Borsky and Lewis P. Shapiro -- The Influence Of Canonical Word Order On Structural Processing / Tracy E. Love and David A. Swinney -- Lexical Access And Coreference Processing In Bulgarian / Maxim I. Stamenov and Elena Andonova -- The Contribution Of Word Form And Meaning To Language Processing In Spanish: Some Evidence From Monolingual And Bilingual Studies / José E. García-Albea , Rosa M. Sanchez-Casas and José M. Igoa -- Accounting For Crosslinguistic Variation: A Constraint-Based Perspective / Robert Thornton , Mariela Gil and Maryellen C. Macdonald -- The Time Course Of Attachment Decisions: Evidence From French / Joel Pynte -- Verb Processing In German And English: Ambiguity, Discontinuous Forms, And Thematic Complexity / Dieter Hillert -- The Dimensional Conception Of Space And The Use Of Dimensional Prepositions In Different Languages / Theo Herrmann and Joachim Grabowski -- Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution In German / Barbara Hemforth , Lars Konieczny , Christoph Scheepers and Gerhard Strube -- Challenges To Recent Theories Of Crosslinguistic Variation In Parsing: Evidence From Dutch / Don C. Mitchell and Marc Brysbaert -- Syntactically Based Parsing Strategies: Evidence From Typologically Different Languages / Marica De Vincenzi -- The Development of Sentence Comprehension In Italian And Serbocroatian: Local Versus Distributed Cues / Anton Ella Devescovi , Simonetta D'Amico , Stan Smith , Ivo Mimica and Elizabeth Bates -- Role Of Context In The Comprehension Of Ambiguous Italian Idioms / Lucia Colombo -- Compactness And Conceptual Complexity Of Conventionalized And Creative Metaphors In Italian / Cristina Cacciari -- Index / Dieter Hillert.