Perspectives on Sentence Processing

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Contents: C. Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, K. Rayner, Introduction. Part I:Sentence Processing and the Brain. L. Osterhout, Event-Related Brain Potentials as Tools for Comprehending Language Comprehension. P. Hagoort, C. Brown, Brain Responses to Lexical Ambiguity Resolution and Parsing. Part II:Phonological Processing. P. Zwitserlood, Access to Phonological-Form Representations in Language Comprehension and Production. C.M. Connine, Vertical and Horizontal Similarity in Spoken-Word Recognition. Part III:Syntactic Processing: Information Flow and Decision Making. M.C. MacDonald, N.J. Pearlmutter, M.S. Seidenberg, Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution as Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. J.C. Trueswell, M.K. Tanenhaus, Toward a Lexicalist Framework of Constraint-Based Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. E. Gibson, N.J. Pearlmutter, A Corpus-Based Analysis of Psycholinguistic Constraints on Prepositional-Phrase Attachment. M. Pickering, S. Barton, R. Shillcock, Unbounded Dependencies, Island Constraints, and Processing Complexity. M. Bader, I. Lasser, German Verb-Final Clauses and Sentence Processing: Evidence for Immediate Attachment. Part IV:Syntactic Processing and Computational Models. M.W. Crocker, On the Nature of the Principle-Based Sentence Processor. O. Rambow, A.K. Joshi, A Processing Model for Free Word-Order Languages. E.P. Stabler, The Finite Connectivity of Linguistic Structure. Part V:Referential Processing. S. Garrod, Resolving Pronouns and Other Anaphoric Devices: The Case for Diversity in Discourse Processing. W.S. Murray, S.P. Liversedge, Referential Context Effects on Syntactic Processing. J. Sedivy, M. Spivey-Knowlton, The Use of Structural, Lexical, and Pragmatic Information in Parsing Attachment Ambiguities. M. Spivey-Knowlton, M.K. Tanenhaus, Referential Context and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Part VI:Sentence Processing and Language Acquisition. S. Crain, W. Ni, L. Conway, Learning, Parsing and Modularity.