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 …

I have proposed previously that language comprehension can be described as structure
building, and I have sketched a simple framework to use as a guide. I call this framework the …

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

The construction-integration model describes the interplay between top-down and bottom-
up processes in comprehension: how top-down processes guide comprehension and how …

During the past decade I have been developing a very simple framework for describing the
cognitive processes and mechanisms involved in discourse comprehension. I call this …

When a text is read, an emergent meaning representation is constructed which reflects the
essential ideas and the causal relations of the passage. Word, sentence, and text levels of …

Current theories of language processing emphasize prediction as a mechanism to facilitate
comprehension, which contrasts with the state of the field a few decades ago, when …

Discusses recent developments in linguistics, psycholinguistics, experimental psychology,
computer science, and information-processing and their implications for the study of …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …