Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective: 31 (Syntax and Semantics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0126135312 ISBN 13: 9780126135312

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0126135312
• ISBN 13: 9780126135312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Hillert Dieter