Language down the garden path : the cognitive and biological basis for linguistics structures / edited by Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka and Michael K. Tanenhaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanz, Montserrat.

Laka, Itziar.

Tanenhaus, Michael K.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics

Oxford studies in biolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text traces the lines of research that grew out of Thomas Bever's 'The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures'. Leading scientists review over 40 years of debates on the factors at play in language comprehension, production, and acquisition; the current status of universals; and virtually every topic relevant in psycholinguistics since 1970.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgments; The Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Reprint of "The cognitive basis for linguistic structures"; 1 Sentence comprehension before and after 1970: Topics, debates, and techniques; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 CBLS: A serendipitous beginning; 1.3 Setting the path for language-processing research; 1.4 Factors at play in processing; 1.5 More on the role of prediction and different sources of knowledge; 1.6 Prosodic and working memory constraints in sentence parsing; 1.7 Why is the agent-initial pattern preferred?

1.8 Universals, the syntax/semantics interface, and narrow syntax1.9 The role of grammar in language processing; 1.10 Uniquely linguistic? The neurocognitive perspective; 1.11 Language acquisition and abstractness; 1.12 Recapitulation; 1.13 Using this book for a course; 2 Anticipating the garden path: The horse raced past the barn ate the cake; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Background; 2.3 Adult language processing as an emergent property of the child's learning; 2.4 Prediction during sentence comprehension: Empirical findings; 2.5 Prediction during sentence comprehension: What is being predicted?

2.6 Event comprehension and the challenge of change2.7 The challenge of change: Empirical findings; 2.8 From horses to squirrels: From predicting human behavior to understanding the human mind; 3 Inviting production to the Cognitive Basis party; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Sentence ambiguity and the powerful feeling of garden-pathing; 3.3 A different approach for other relative clauses; 3.4 Ambiguity and meaning in relative clauses; 3.5 The role of production; 4 Thematic templates and the comprehension of relative clauses; 4.1 Processing relative clauses: Beyond fillers and gaps

4.2 Thematic template mapping as a processing strategy4.3 Asymmetry in the comprehension and production of relative clauses; 5 The processing complexity of English relative clauses; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Reanalysis-based theories; 5.3 Experience-/surprisal-based theories; 5.4 Memory-based theories; 5.5 Evidence for each theory; 5.6 Summary; 5.7 Experiment 1; 5.8 Experiment 2; 5.9 General discussion; 6 Prediction, Production, Priming, and imPlicit learning: A framework for psycholinguistics; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The psycholinguistic chain; 6.3 Phonotactic learning: An example study

6.4 Loops in the chain: Two new links6.5 Conclusions: The weakest links; 7 Enduring themes in sentence comprehension: Projecting linguistic structures; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Comprehenders form linguistic structures; 7.3 Linguistic elements project structure; 7.4 Common representations interact; 7.5 Grammar checks the adequacy of projected structures; 7.6 Summary; 8 The multiple bases for linguistic structures; 8.1 The fundamental tension; 8.2 External modeling; 8.3 Internal modeling; 8.4 Some examples; 8.5 Succinctness in grammatical theory; 8.6 Linguistic theory and modern statistical tools

8.7 Accounting for probabilistic factors in language

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-299-79458-0

0-19-166482-0

OCLC:

922972529