Language Down the Garden Path
The Cognitive and Biological Basis for Linguistic Structures
Series: Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 2014
- ISBN 9780198712800
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages518 pages
- Size 234x157x27 mm
- Weight 790 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book 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.
MoreLong description:
Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in his 1970 paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This 'garden path sentence', so-called because of the way it leads the reader or listener down the wrong parsing path, helped spawn the entire subfield of sentence processing. It has become the most often quoted element of a paper which spanned a wealth of research into the relationship between the grammatical system and language processing.
Language Down the garden Path traces the lines of research that grew out of Bever's classic paper. Leading scientists review over 40 years of debates on the factors at play in language comprehension, production, and acquisition (the role of prediction, grammar, working memory, prosody, abstractness, syntax, and semantics mapping); the current status of universals and narrow syntax; and virtually every topic relevant in psycholinguistics since 1970. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book will appeal to all those interested in understanding the questions that shaped, and are still shaping, this field and the ways in which linguists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists are seeking to answer them.
`This is an exceptional book, animated by its exploration of ideas in T.G. Bever's foundational paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". It's a grand design that stirs the echoes of four decades of intense debate in the sciences of language. The contributors are highly accomplished scientists, and we are thus treated to an authoritative as well as a lively and stimulating range of views on ways in which human cognition shapes and is shaped by our linguistic capacity.'
Merrill Garrett, University of Arizona
Table of Contents:
Reprint of 'The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures'
Sentence Comprehension Before and After 1970: Topics, debates, and techniques
Anticipating the Garden Path: The horse raced past the barn ate the cake
Inviting Production to the Cognitive Basis Party
Thematic Templates and the Comprehension of Relative Clauses
The Processing Complexity of English Relative Clauses
Prediction, Production, Priming, and imPlicit Learning: A framework for psycholinguistics
Enduring Themes in Sentence Comprehension: Projecting linguistic structures
The Multiple Bases for Linguistic Structures
Pronouncing and Comprehending Center-embedded Sentences
Beyond Capacity: The role of memory processes in building linguistic structure in real-time
Neurotypology: Modelling cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the neurocognition of language comprehension
The Path From Certain Events to Linguistic Uncertainties
On Abstraction and Language Universals
Determiners: An empirical argument for innateness
Anchoring Agreement
Parser-grammar Relations: We don't understand everything twice
The Epicenter of Linguistic Behaviour
From Action to Language: Evidence and speculations
The Mirror Theory of Language: A neuro-linguist's perspective
Some Issues in Current Language Acquisition Research
A Bayesian Evaluation of the Cost of Abstractness
The Biolinguistics of Language Universals - the next years
Afterword: The Impact of The Cognitive Basis for Linguistic Structures: A retrospective reflection, reconstruction, and appreciation
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