The on-Line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, Erps and Beyond

Author: Manuel Carreiras
Published: July 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ISBN: 1841694002
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 400

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The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension has been written by top researchers in the field of psycholinguistics, who are also leading experts in the use of eye tracking and ERPs. This book combines comprehensive overviews of the state of the art on theoretical progress, the latest on assumptions behind the use of eye movements (reading and visual world) and ERPs methods with papers that address specific research questions. This work covers not only methodological issues but also discusses the theoretical progress in understanding language processing using temporally fine-grained methods. European and American scientists in psycholinguistics address core findings, assumptions, problems, hopes, and future guidelines concerning the use of advanced research techniques such as eyetracking and event related potentials (ERP), which have been used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in comprehending and producing language. The topics include the history of on-line methods of language processing, linking eye movement to sentence comprehension in reading and listening, antecedent typicality effects in the processing of noun phrase anaphors, gender or genders agreement. The 18 studies are from a September 2002 conference in Adeje, the Canary Islands. Distributed by Taylor and Francis.

Table of Contents
Ch. 1 On the on-line study of language comprehension 1
Ch. 2 On-line methods in language processing : introduction and historical review 15
Ch. 3 Eye movements and semantic composition 33
Ch. 4 Linking eye movements to sentence comprehension in reading and listening 51
Ch. 5 Lexical predictability effects on eye fixations during reading 77
Ch. 6 The empty category PRO : processing what cannot be seen 95
Ch. 7 Antecedent typicality effects in the processing of noun phrase anaphors 119
Ch. 8 On-line measures of coreferential processing 139
Ch. 9 Production and comprehension measures in assessing plural object formation 151
Ch. 10 Constituent order priming from reading to listening : a visual-world study 167
Ch. 11 The on-line processing of ambiguous and unambiguous words in context : evidence from head-mounted eyetracking 187
Ch. 12 That is not it and it is not that : reference resolution and conceptual composites 209
Ch. 13 Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse : can we use ERPs to keep track of things? 229
Ch. 14 Sentences in the brain : event-related potentials as real-time reflections of sentence comprehension and language learning 271
Ch. 15 Gender or genders agreement? 309
Ch. 16 Evidence for a shared mechanism in linguistic and nonlinguistic sequence processing? ERP recordings of on-line function- and content-information integration 329
Ch. 17 Distinct neural correlates of legal and illegal word-order variations in German : how can fMRI inform cognitive models of sentence processing? 357
Ch. 18 On-line sentence processing : past, present, and future 371

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