All ebooks in the collection "Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics" - Springer

New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes , Cristina Suárez-Gómez

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language...

Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing

Katy Carlson , Charles Clifton, Jr. , Janet Dean Fodor

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some were presented at the Lynschrift on May 19-20, 2018; others were written especially for this volume....

Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification

Katalin É. Kiss , Tamás Zétényi

This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults, speakers of different languages, using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the...

Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing

Lyn Frazier , Edward Gibson

Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general...

Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

Florian Schwarz

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content;...

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages

Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen , Barbara Hemforth , Barbara Mertins

Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating...

Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

Tom Roeper , Margaret Speas

This volume focuses on recursion and reveals a host of new theoretical arguments, philosophical perspectives, formal representations and empirical evidence from parsing, acquisition and computer models, highlighting its central role in modern science. Noam Chomsky,...

Asymmetries between Language Production and Comprehension

Petra Hendriks

This book asserts that language is a signaling system rather than a code, based in part on such research as the finding that 5-year-old English and Dutch children use pronouns correctly in their own utterances, but often fail to interpret these forms correctly when used...

Case, Word Order and Prominence

Peter De Swart , Monique Lamers

Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument structure of...

Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

Jill De Villiers , Tom Roeper

Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that...

Processing and Producing Head-final Structures

Yuki Hirose , Jerome L. Packard , Hiroko Yamashita

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence processing had been...

Variation in the Input

Merete Anderssen , Kristine Bentzen , Marit Westergaard

The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. However,...

Code-Switching in Bilingual Children

Katja F. Cantone

This study investigates the issue of code-switching in young bilingual children, in particular, intra-sentential switches, that is, mixing within an utterance. The data come from five bilingual Italian/German ch- dren (age 1;8 to 5 years), who grew up in Hamburg,...

Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing

Despoina Papadopoulou

The central question that I will pursue in this study concerns the universality of the human sentence processing mechanism. It will be explored whether there are cross-linguistic differences in parsing by p- senting psycholinguistic evidence from Greek. Empirical data...

Semantics in Acquisition

Veerle Van Geenhoven

A good deal of work in language acquisition has been devoted to children’s interpretation of sentences that contain the universal quantifier, e. g. , every in English. It has been observed in several experimental studies and across several languages that some school-age...

The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:

Natalia Gagarina , Insa Gülzow

language-specific competence within the acquisitional process. Together with the focus on acquisition of the verb and its grammar research in this domain provides a fruitful basis for discussion. The maturation model of language acquisition assumes that UG becomes the...

Case and Linking in Language Comprehension

Markus Bader , Josef Bayer

Perspectives on Aspect

Henriette De Swart , Angeliek Van Hout , Henk J. Verkuyl

The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field...