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The monograph follows the rationalist tradition, arguing the central role of modularity and universal grammar in a theory of human linguistic performance. It refines the notion of `modularity of mind', and presents a distributed model of syntactic processing which consists of modules aligned with the various informational `types' associated with modern linguistic theories. By considering psycholinguistic evidence from a range of languages, a small number of processing principles are motivated and are demonstrated to hold universally. It is also argued that the behavior of modules, and the strategies operative within them, can be derived from an overarching `Principle of Incremental Comprehension'.
Audience: The book is recommended to all linguists, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and others interested in a unified and interdisciplinary study of the human language faculty.
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Book Title: Computational Psycholinguistics
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language
Authors: Matthew W. Crocker
Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1600-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3802-4Published: 31 December 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3806-2Published: 31 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1600-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1873-0043
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 248
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics