Over the last two decades, the study of natural language processing has come to occupy a
central position in psycholinguistics. While much of the early psycholinguistic research into …

The fundamental concerns of the field of cognitive psychology-understanding the nature of
the mental representation of information and the processes which operate on those …

It is suggested that psychological research on language has adopted peculiar priorities by
extrapolating from structural linguistics, rather than specifying general theories of cognition …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores that language is viewed as a specialized skill
involving language-specific processes and language-specific mechanisms. Another position …

This book presents a new theoretical framework--what Gernsbacher calls the Structure
Building Framework--for understanding language comprehension in particular, and …

Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan
Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language …

Publisher Summary A fundamental problem in language comprehension is to obtain an
accurate characterization of lexical processing and of the influence of contextual information …

Discusses the implications of the context dependence of real-time language processing,
focusing on issues such as differences between language production and comprehension …

The developments in linguistic theory over the last three decades have given us a better
understanding of the formal properties of language. However, as the truism goes, language …

The effect of research findings concerning language comprehension on the understanding
of the organization of cognition is examined. Principles underlying general cognitive …