Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: Processing Hindi Center Embeddings

by Shravan Vasishth

Overview

The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth develops a new sentence processing model that builds on existing theories and overcomes their empirical problems. Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415967617
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/09/2003
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shravan Vasishth is co-editor of the Seventh Edition of the Language Files, published by the Ohio State University of Press. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 1 Introduction, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 2 Three models of sentence processing, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 3 The effect of identical case marking, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 4 Distance effects or similarity- based interference?, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 5 Increasing distance can facilitate processing, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 6 Word length, position, and reading time, Shravan Vasishth; Chapter 7 Concluding remarks, and a new sentence processing model, Shravan Vasishth Stimuli for the experiments, Shravan Vasishth;