German Sentence Processing

by B. Hemforth (Editor), L. Konieczny (Editor)

Overview

The German language offers a variety of possibilities for asking and answering new questions in psycholinguistic sentence comprehension research. The collection of papers in this volume contributes to the increasingly relevant crosslinguistic comparison of mechanisms of human sentence processing. The topics covered are incremental structure assembly, on-line ambiguity resolution, and phonological, contextual, and working memory aspects of reanalysis.
The new theoretical and experimental insights presented in this volume should be of great interest to linguists and psychologists working on human language comprehension. The introductory information provided by the authors makes the volume easily accessible to advanced students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401596183
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	04/17/2013
Series:	Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics , #24
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

Cognitive Parsing in German: An Introduction.- The Subject-Before-Object Preference in German Clauses.- The Subject Preference in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous WH-Questions in German.- Linking Syntactic Functions with Thematic Roles: Psych-Verbs and the Resolution of Subject-Object Ambiguity.- Referential Biases in Syntactic Attachment.- Modifier Attachment: Relative Clauses and Coordinations.- On Reanalysis: Evidence from German.- Head Position and Clause Boundary Effects in Reanalysis.- Subject-Verb Agreement in German: Evidence From Production and Comprehension Experiments.- Author Index.