Research Catalog

Title

Sentence comprehension : the integration of habits and rules / David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever.

Author

Townsend, David J.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Bever, Thomas G.

Description

x, 445 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Language, speech, and communication

Uniform Title

Language, speech, and communication.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences
• Psycholinguistics
• Comprehension

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-432) and indexes.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Sentence as a Case Study in Cognitive Science. 1.1. The Sentence Is a Natural Level of Linguistic Representation. 1.2. The Integration of Habits and Symbols -- Ch. 2. Classical Evidence for the Sentence. 2.1. Early Ideas about the Sentence. 2.2. Banishment of the Sentence. 2.3. Revival of the Sentence. 2.4. Unlinking Knowledge and Behaviour. 2.5. The Search for a Behaviorally Relevant Grammar. 2.6. The Reemergence of Associationism. 2.7. Conclusion: The Mystery of Structure -- Ch. 3. What Every Psychologist Should Know about Grammar. 3.1. The Architecture of Syntax. 3.2. Constant Features of Syntactic Structures. 3.3. Arguments, Movement, and Derivations. 3.4. The Architecture Relating Meaning and Syntax. 3.5. Conclusion and Implications -- Ch. 4. Contemporary Models of Sentence Comprehension. 4.1. The Problem of Comprehension. 4.2. Structural Models. 4.3. Statistical Models. 4.4. Grains of Truth.
• 4.5. Conclusion: Implications for an Integrated Model -- Ch. 5. Embedding the Grammar in a Comprehension Model. 5.1. Syntactic Derivations and Probabilistic Information in Comprehension. 5.2. Analysis by Synthesis. 5.3. A Case Study: The Passive. 5.4. Pseudosyntax, Real Syntax, and the Grain Problem. 5.5. Some Basic Facts Consistent with the Model. 5.6. Conclusion: The Heightened Clarity of Grammatical Speech -- Ch. 6. Basic Evidence for the Model. 6.1. Pseudosyntax. 6.2. Meaning. 6.3. Real Syntax. 6.4. Introspection and Sentence Processing -- Ch. 7. Canonical Sentence Templates. 7.1. Reduced Relative Clauses out of Context. 7.2. Reduced Relative Clauses in Context. 7.3. Full Relative Clauses. 7.4. Direct-Object/Sentential Complement. 7.5. Sentential Complement/Relative Clauses. 7.6. Direct Object/Subject. 7.7. Conjoined Noun Phrase/Coordinate Clause. 7.8. Interactions of Complex Subcategorizations -- Ch. 8. Conceptual Knowledge, Modularity, and Discourse.
• 8.1. Parallel Syntactic and Semantic Analyses. 8.2. Intersentential Contexts. 8.3. Sentence-Internal Contexts and Connectives. 8.4. Conclusion: Representations, Discourses, and Modules -- Ch. 9. Relation to Other Systems of Language Use. 9.1. Acquisition and Comprehension. 9.2. Neurological Evidence for the Model -- Ch. 10. Implications. 10.1. Summary. 10.2. Cognitive Architecture, the Grain Problem, and Consciousness.

ISBN

• 0262201321 (alk. paper)
• 0262700808 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00067882

OCLC

• ocm45487549
• SCSB-4180262

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries