Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension - Processing Hindi Center Embeddings

Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.

List of contents

Preface, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 1 Introduction, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 2 Three models of sentence processing, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 3 The effect of identical case marking, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 4 Distance effects or similarity- based interference?, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 5 Increasing distance can facilitate processing, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 6 Word length, position, and reading time, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 7 Concluding remarks, and a new sentence processing model, Shravan Vasishth Stimuli for the experiments, Shravan Vasishth;

About the author

Shravan Vasishth

Summary

This book provides the first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide coverage sentence processing models.

Product details

• Authors: Shravan Vasishth, Vasishth Shravan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415967617
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96761-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Weight: 1230 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Hindi, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology