1st Edition

Lexical Representations And Sentence Processing A Special Issue of Language And Cognitive Processes

By MaryEllen C. MacDonald Copyright 1997
288 Pages
by Psychology Press

288 Pages
by Psychology Press

Until recently, much research in language comprehension operated under the assumption that comprehenders initially identified the syntactic structure of sentences they were hearing or reading without regard to the meanings of the words in the sentences. A significant amount of recent work has challenged that position, however, and there is now abundant evidence that lexical information plays a... Read more
Lexical representations and sentence processing - an introduction, M.C. MacDonald; thematic roles as verb-specific concepts, K. McRae et al; modelling parsing constraints with high-dimensional context space, C. Burgess and K. Lund; parsing in a dynamical system - an attractor-based account of the interaction of lexical and structural constraints in sentence processing, W. Tabor et al; parsing of garden-path sentences with reciprocal verbs, F. Ferreira and K. McClure; the role of lexical heads in parsing - evidence from Germany, L. Konieczny et al; lexical structure and parsing complexity, S. Stevenson and P. Merlo.

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MaryEllen C. MacDonald