Title: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Matthew W. Crocker, Martin Pickering, and Charles Clifton, Jr. (editors) (University of the Saarland, University of Glasgow, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Cambridge University Press, 2000, x+365 pp; hardbound ISBN 0-521-63121-1, $64.95
Abstract: Contributors Preface 1. Architectures and mechanisms in sentence comprehension Martin J. Pickering, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Matthew W. Crocker Part I. Frameworks: 2. Evaluating models of human sentence processing Charles Clifton, Jr 3. Specifying architectures for language processing: process, control, and memory in parsing and interpretation Richard L. Lewis 4. Modeling thematic and discourse context effects with a multiple constraints approach: implications for the architecture of the language comprehension system Michael K. Tanenhaus, Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, and Joy E. Hanna 5. Late closure in context: some consequences for parsimony Gerry T. M. Altmann Part II. Syntactic and Lexical Mechanisms: 6. The modular statistical hypothesis: exploring lexical category ambiguity Steffan Corley and Matthew W. Crocker 7. Lexical syntax and parsing architecture Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson 8. Constituency, context, and connectionism in syntactic parsing James Henderson Part III. Syntax and Semantics: 9. On the electrophysiology of language comprehension: implications for the human language system Colin Brown and Peter Hagoort 10. Parsing and incremental understanding during reading Martin J. Pickering and Matthew J. Traxler 11. Syntactic attachment and anaphor resolution: the two sides of relative clause attachment Barbara Hemforth, Lars Konieczny, and Christoph Scheepers 12. Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics Marica De Vincenzi Part IV. Interpretation: 13. On interpretation: minimal 'lowering' Lyn Frazier 14. Focus effects associated with negative quantifiers Linda M. Moxey and Anthony J. Sanford 15. Constraints and mechanisms in theories of anaphor processing Amit Almor Author index Subject index.