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The second edition of the book on language comprehension in honor of Pim Levelt's sixtieth birthday has been released before he turns sixty-one. Some things move faster than the years of age. This seems to be especially true for advances in science. Therefore, the present edition entails changes in some of the chapters and incorporates an update of the current literature. I would like to thank all contributors for their cooperation in making a second edition possible such a short time after the completion of the first one. Angela D. Friederici Leipzig, November 23, 1998. Preface to the first edition Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys­ tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi­ mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com­ prehension in particular.

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Author:   Angela D. Friederici
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2nd ed. 1999. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1999
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.511kg
ISBN:  

9783642642012

ISBN 10:   3642642012
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   18 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 The Recognition of Spoken Words.- 2 Prosodic Structure and Word Recognition.- 3 Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts.- 4 Morphology and Word Recognition.- 5 The Architecture of the Mental Lexicon.- 6 The Reading of Words and Sentences.- 7 Sentence Parsing.- 8 Discourse Comprehension.- 9 The Neurobiology of Language Processing.

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