Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing

Offers current, original research on essential topics in language processing
With contributions by an international group of renowned specialists in the field of psycholinguistics
Covers both theoretical aspects and their practical applications

Offers current, original research on essential topics in language processing With contributions by an international group of renowned specialists in the field of psycholinguistics Covers both theoretical aspects and their practical applications

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Lyn Frazier's contributions to psycholinguistics: An appreciation; Charles Clifton, Jr., Brian Dillon, and Adrian Staub.- Center-embedded sentences: An online problem or deeper? Janet Dean Fodor, Benjamin Macaulay, Danielle Ronkos, Taletha Callahan, and Tyler Peckenpaugh.- Contrastive prosody and the subsequent mention of alternatives during discourse processing; Amy Schafer, Amber Camp, Hannah Rohde, Theres Grüter.- Alternatives on demand and locality: Resolving discourse-linked wh-phrases in sluices; Jesse A. Harris.- The division of labor between structure building and feature checking during sentence comprehension; Markus Bader.- Real-time commitments in processing individual/degree polysemy; Margaret Grant, Sonia Michniewicz, Jessica Rett.- Negative polarity items as collocations: Experimental evidence from German; Frank Richter, Janina Rad.- What eye movements can and cannot tell us about wh-movement and scrambling; Irina A. Sekerina, Anna K. Laurinavichyute, Olga V. Dragoy.- When all linguists did not go to the workshop, none of the Germans but some of the French did: The role of alternative constructions for quantifier scope; Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny.- Definites, domain restriction, and discourse structure in online processing; Florian Schwarz.- Processing coercion in Brazilian Portuguese: Grinding objects and packaging substances; Suzi Lima.- Incrementality in processing complements and adjuncts: Construal revisited; Britta Stolterfoht, Holger Gauza, and Melanie Störzer.- Event knowledge and verb knowledge predict sensitivity to different aspects of semantic anomalies in aphasia; Michelle Colvin, Tessa Warren, and MichaelWalsh Dickey.- Who cares what who prefers? A study in judgment differences between syntacticians and non-syntacticians; Gisbert Fanselow, Jana Häussler, and Thomas Weskott.- How just is justice? Ask a psycholinguist; Janet Randall.- C-command in discourse: Syntactic principles beyond the sentence and their consequences foracquisition theory; Tom Roeper. <p