Processing syntax and morphology : a neurocognitive perspective
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Processing syntax and morphology : a neurocognitive perspective
（Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology, 6）（Oxford linguistics）
Oxford University Press, 2009
- : pbk
Available at / 27 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. [302]-344
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for example whether language processing proceeds in a serial or a parallel manner; which areas of the brain support the processing of syntactic and morphological information; whether there are neurophysiological correlates of language processing; and the degree to which neurolinguistic findings on
syntactic and morphological processing are consistent with theoretical conceptions of syntax and morphology. The authors describe the outcomes of methods in neurophysiology (for example, functional magnetic resonance imaging), behavioural psycholinguistics, and neuropsychological lesion studies, and provide
brief introductions to the methods themselves. They extend basic findings at the word and sentence level by considering how the mental processing of syntax and morphology relates to prosody, discourse, semantics, and world knowledge. They have divided the work into four parts concerned with word structure, sentence structure, processing syntax and morphology at the interfaces, and a comparison of different models of syntactic and morphological processing in the neurophysiological domain. The
book is directed at graduate students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, neurophysiology, and psychology.
Table of Contents
- PART I: SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY AT THE WORD LEVEL
- PART II: SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY IN SENTENCE PROCESSING
- PART III: PROCESSING SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY AT THE INTERFACES
- PART IV: NEUROCOGNITIVE MODELS OF SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING
by "Nielsen BookData"
