Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Language Processing

The crosslinguistic aspect of language processing is becoming a centralquestion in psycholinguistic research if the goal of psycholinguists is togive a model of... » 

The crosslinguistic aspect of language processing is becoming a centralquestion in psycholinguistic research if the goal of psycholinguists is togive a model of the human sentence processor and not a language sentenceprocessor a test of its crosslinguistic validity is essential. br Thechapters address truly fundamental issues about the representational primitivesof the parsing system and the motivations for the essential characteristics ofthe parser. The volume also discusses important methodological issues in crosslinguistic research such as the choices of linguistic material andexperimental procedures. It also shows how crosslinguistic research can bepursued in either a monolingual or multilingual approach. br This volumecontains contributions from experimental and theoretical psycholinguists andcomputational researchers. br emAudienceem The book is recommended readingfor advanced undergraduates and graduate students in psycholinguisticslinguistics and computational linguisitics as well as practising researchersin the same fields. «