German Sentence Processing

✍ Scribed by Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny (auth.), Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 24
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Cognitive Parsing in German: An Introduction....Pages 1-23
The Subject-Before-Object Preference in German Clauses....Pages 25-63
The Subject Preference in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous WH-Questions in German....Pages 65-93
Linking Syntactic Functions with Thematic Roles: Psych-Verbs and the Resolution of Subject-Object Ambiguity....Pages 95-135
Referential Biases in Syntactic Attachment....Pages 137-160
Modifier Attachment: Relative Clauses and Coordinations....Pages 161-186
On Reanalyis: Evidence from German....Pages 187-246
Head Position and Clause Boundary Effects in Reanalysis....Pages 247-278
Subject-Verb Agreement in German: Evidence from Production and Comprehension Experiments....Pages 279-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-322

✦ Subjects

Psycholinguistics; Interdisciplinary Studies; Computational Linguistics