Reading and Language Processing

ISBN-13: 9781138160439 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 01/19/2017 Pages: 356 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) This volume was designed to identify the current limits of progress in the psychology of reading and language processing in an information processing framework. Leaders in their fields of interest, the chapter authors couple current theoretical analyses with new, formally presented experiments. The research — cutting-edge and sometimes controversial — reflects the prevailing analysis that language comprehension results in numerous levels of representation, including surface features, lexical properties, linguistic structures, and idea networks underlying a message as well as the situations to which a message refers. As a group, the chapters highlight the impact that input modality — auditory or written — has on comprehension. Finally, the studies also capture the evolution of new topic matter and ongoing debates concerning the competing paradigms,