Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Book

Contributors; Preface;

1. Architectures and mechanisms in sentence comprehension Martin J. Pickering, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Matthew W. Crocker;

Part I. Frameworks:
2. Evaluating models of human sentence processing Charles Clifton, Jr.;
3. Specifying architectures for language processing: process, control, and memory in parsing and interpretation Richard L. Lewis;
4. Modeling thematic and discourse context effects with a multiple constraints approach: implications for the architecture of the language comprehension system Michael K. Tanenhaus, Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, and Joy E. Hanna;
5. Late closure in context: some consequences for parsimony Gerry T. M. Altmann;

Part II. Syntactic and Lexical Mechanisms:
6. The modular statistical hypothesis: exploring lexical category ambiguity Steffan Corley and Matthew W. Crocker;
7. Lexical syntax and parsing architecture Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson;
8. Constituency, context, and connectionism in syntactic parsing James Henderson;

Part III. Syntax and Semantics:
9. On the electrophysiology of language comprehension: implications for the human language system Colin Brown and Peter Hagoort;
10. Parsing and incremental understanding during reading Martin J. Pickering and Matthew J. Traxler;
11. Syntactic attachment and anaphor resolution: the two sides of relative clause attachment Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny, and Christoph Scheepers;
12. Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics Marica De Vincenzi;

Part IV. Interpretation:
13. On interpretation: minimal 'lowering' Lyn Frazier;
14. Focus effects associated with negativequantifiers Linda M. Moxey and Anthony J. Sanford;
15. Constraints and mechanisms in theories of anaphor processing Amit Almor; Author index; Subject index.