Processing French : a psycholinguistic perspective / Peter Golato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golato, Peter, 1965-

Series:

Yale Language Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Psychological aspects.

French language.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical study of the processing of morphologically simple and complex French words. Peter Golato's research offers an insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of isolated words and words within sentences. Processing French investigates the native-language processing of French, a language for which findings have not definitively supported a dual-mechanism account of morphological processing. Through word- and sentence-level studies, the book accomplishes two goals. First, it offers behavioral evidence in support of a dual-mechanism processing account at the word level. In contrast to English, however, the evidence with French does not turn upon a contrast in inflectional regularity among verbs but instead hinges upon a diachronic contrast, with synchronic relevance, in the productivity of derivational suffixes among nouns. Second, by incorporating the findings of the word-level studies into sentence-level studies, the book offers a window onto the morphological processing of displaced sentential elements, specifically morphologically simple and complex wh-moved nouns and raised lexical verbs. Peter Golato is assistant professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . "Processing French is decidedly original, and it is equally and decidedly sound. This book makes a superb shelf reference for anybody working in psycholinguistics, first- and second-language acquisition, and the syntactic study of French...and draws some fascinating conclusions about what might really be at play in human language acquisition." -Fred Davidson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Theories of Language Processing

II. Priming and Priming Studies

III. Priming with Inflected French Verbs

IV. From French Rules to French Words

V. Syntactic Priming with French Nouns

VI. Syntactic Priming with French Verbs

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-203) and index.

ISBN:

9786611731076

9781281731074

1281731072

9780300132953

0300132956

OCLC:

952732004