Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective

This revised and updated second edition provides a complete and comprehensive overview of research in the area of language comprehension at a high scientific standard. With contributions written by experts in each of the different fields of language comprehension from input to representation, it provides a critical discussion and weighting of the large number of papers and data that have been published in this field in the last decade. TOC:The Recognition of Spoken Words.- Prosodic Structure and Word Recognition.- Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts.- Morphology and Word Recognition.- The Architecture of the Mental Lexicon.- The Reading of Words and Sentences.- Sentence Parsing.- Discourse Comprehension.- The Neurobiology of Language Processing.