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.
Key Features
* Provides an overview of central psycholinguistic topics in sentence processing
* Combines deductive and inductive methods in fashioning an innovative approach
* Contributors address word recognition, fixed expressions, grammatical constraints, empty categories, and parsing
* Original papers form a coherent presentation

• ISBN: 0126135312
• ISBN-13: 9780126135312
• Editors : Dieter Hillert and Brian Joseph and Carl Pollard
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover
• Publication Date: 7/1/1998
• Publisher Imprint: Academic Press
• Price ($AUD): $254.95


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