Sentence Processing

Roger P. G. van Gompel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee, UK. His research interests are the psychological processes underlying language production and comprehension, with a special interest in sentence processing. He has published research articles on discourse and sentence processing and has written several reviews of the literature on sentence comprehension.

• Introduction L. Frazier, Early Syntactic Models K. McRae, K. Matsuki, Constraint-based Models of Sentence Processing, R. Levy, Memory and Surprisal in Human Sentence Comprehension, S. Frisson, M. J. Traxler, Semantic Interpretation of Sentences, M. J. Spivey, S. E. Anderson, T. A. Farmer, Putting Syntax in Context P. Sturt, Referential Processing in Sentences J. Snedeker, Children’s Sentence Processing L. Roberts, Sentence Processing in Bilinguals, D. Caplan, Sentence Processing and Comprehension in Atypical Populations.

I am very impressed by the range and quality of the contributions to "Sentence Processing". The chapters are written by world-leading researchers, who provide detailed, integrative reviews of this popular and energetic field of research. Their contributions provide important theoretical insights into traditional "core" topics relating to syntax, semantics, and the interaction of language with the non-linguistic context. In addition, they indicate how the field has developed to encompass processing in such groups as children, bilinguals, and people with language disorders. - Martin Pickering, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UKThis volume offers a broad overview of recent research on sentence processing. It will appeal to a broad audience with some chapters targeted at students who are new to psycholinguistics, and others engaging more specifically with current theoretical debates. As a whole the book presents an interesting snapshot of the different ways leading researchers approach the topic of sentence processing. – Chuck Clifton, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, USA