(Ebook) Syntactic Processing by CARLOS ACUA. FARIA ISBN 9781003405634, 9781032522258, 1003405630, 1032522259

(Ebook) Syntactic Processing by CARLOS ACUA. FARIA ISBN 9781003405634, 9781032522258, 1003405630, 1032522259

This book provides an overview of the structures, topics and main theories of syntactic processing. It covers the last 40 years of sentence-level psycholinguistic research and debates and makes it accessible to both theoretical linguists and experimental psychologists. Tying linguistically relevant issues to psycholinguistic theory, this book: Covers the processing of the grammatical phenomena adjunction, agreement and gap filling and discusses the relationship between grammars and parsers Discusses experimental work and theories, demonstrating how psychologists have made real strides in understanding language and how studying the processing of syntactic structure is the same as studying the nature of languageExplores the key theories of psycholinguistics, including recent developmentsExplains the different methodologies of sentence processing, such as eye-tracking and electroencephalography Bridging the gap between psycholinguistic research and the study of language, this book is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics as well as cognitive science and psychology.