Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective
By: by Angela D. Friederici
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9783642977343
Description: This is the first book that gives a complete and comprehensive overview over research in the area of language comprehension at a high scientific standard. With contributions written by experts in each of the different subfields of language comprehension from input to representation, it provides a critical discussion and weighting of the large number of papers and data published over the last decade in this field.
Table of contents: title: The Recognition of Spoken Word; title: Prosodic Structure and Word Recognition; title: Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts; title: Morphology and Word Recognition; title: The Architecture of the Mental Lexicon; title: The Reading of Words and Sentences; title: Sentence Parsing; title: Discourse Comprehension; title: The Neurobiology of Language Processing.