Language Down the Garden Path

Montserrat Sanz Yagüe received her PhD in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. She is currently Professor in the Department of Spanish at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Japan). She leads a research team that explores the process of acquisition of Spanish by native speakers of Japanese. Her previous research on the syntax/semantics interface under Minimalist premises culminated in the book Events and Predication: A New Approach to Syntactic Processing in English and Spanish (John Benjamins, 2000). Recently she has published a book with José Manuel Igoa entitled Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy: Contributions of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics to Language Teaching (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).Itziar Laka received her PhD in Linguistics at MIT. She is Professor at the University of the Basque Country and Director of The Bilingual Mind research group. She is the author of Negation in Syntax (Garland, 1994), and A Brief Grammar of Euskara (1996). Her current research combines linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the neural representation of linguistic structure in bilinguals.Michael K. Tanenhaus received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978. He taught at Wayne State University until 1983 when he moved to the University of Rochester. His research spans a wide range of topics in psycholinguistics, with a primary focus on real-time spoken language processing. In 2011, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Reprint of 'The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures' ; 1. Sentence Comprehension Before and After 1970: Topics, debates, and techniques ; 2. Anticipating the Garden Path: The horse raced past the barn ate the cake ; 3. Inviting Production to the Cognitive Basis Party ; 4. Thematic Templates and the Comprehension of Relative Clauses ; 5. The Processing Complexity of English Relative Clauses ; 6. Prediction, Production, Priming, and imPlicit Learning: A framework for psycholinguistics ; 7. Enduring Themes in Sentence Comprehension: Projecting linguistic structures ; 8. The Multiple Bases for Linguistic Structures ; 9. Pronouncing and Comprehending Center-embedded Sentences ; 10. Beyond Capacity: The role of memory processes in building linguistic structure in real-time ; 11. Neurotypology: Modelling cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the neurocognition of language comprehension ; 12. The Path From Certain Events to Linguistic Uncertainties ; 13. On Abstraction and Language Universals ; 14. Determiners: An empirical argument for innateness ; 15. Anchoring Agreement ; 16. Parser-grammar Relations: We don't understand everything twice ; 17. The Epicenter of Linguistic Behaviour ; 18. From Action to Language: Evidence and speculations ; 19. The Mirror Theory of Language: A neuro-linguist's perspective ; 20. Some Issues in Current Language Acquisition Research ; 21. A Bayesian Evaluation of the Cost of Abstractness ; 22. The Biolinguistics of Language Universals - the next years ; Afterword: The Impact of The Cognitive Basis for Linguistic Structures: A retrospective reflection, reconstruction, and appreciation ; References ; Index

`This is an exceptional book, animated by its exploration of ideas in T.G. Bever's foundational paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". It's a grand design that stirs the echoes of four decades of intense debate in the sciences of language. The contributors are highly accomplished scientists, and we are thus treated to an authoritative as well as a lively and stimulating range of views on ways in which human cognition shapes and is shaped by our linguistic capacity.'Merrill Garrett, University of Arizona