Processing syntax and morphology : a neurocognitive perspective

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for example whether language processing proceeds in a serial or a parallel manner; which areas of the brain support the processing of syntactic and morphological information; whether there are neurophysiological correlates of language processing; and the degree to which neurolinguistic findings on syntactic and morphological processing are consistent with theoretical conceptions of syntax and morphology. The authors describe the outcomes of methods in neurophysiology (for example, functional magnetic resonance imaging), behavioural psycholinguistics, and neuropsychological lesion studies, and provide brief introductions to the methods themselves. They extend basic findings at the word and sentence level by considering how the mental processing of syntax and morphology relates to prosody, discourse, semantics, and world knowledge. They have divided the work into four parts concerned with word structure, sentence structure, processing syntax and morphology at the interfaces, and a comparison of different models of syntactic and morphological processing in the neurophysiological domain. The book is directed at graduate students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, neurophysiology, and psychology.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodological Prerequisites
  • PART I: SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY AT THE WORD LEVEL
  • 3. Basic Categories: The Noun-Verb Distinction
  • 4. Inflectional Morphology
  • 5. Derivational Morphology
  • 6. Syntax and Morphology at the Word Level: Summary and Critical Evaluation
  • PART II: SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY IN SENTENCE PROCESSING
  • 7. Mapping Form Onto Meaning: The Requirements for a Sentence Processor
  • 8. Constituent Order
  • 9. Relational Structure
  • 10. The Processing of Complex Structures
  • 11. The Processing of Modifiers
  • 12. On The Functional Interpretation of late Positive ERP Effects in Language Processing
  • PART III: PROCESSING SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY AT THE INTERFACES
  • 13. The Influence of Prosody
  • 14. Information Structure
  • PART IV: NEUROCOGNITIVE MODELS OF SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING
  • 15. Neurocognitive Models of Language Comprehension
  • 16. Future Directions
  • References
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Authors

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書名 Processing syntax and morphology : a neurocognitive perspective
著作者等 Bornkessel, Ina
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Ina
Schlesewsky Matthias
シリーズ名 Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 xvi, 360 p., [8] p. of plates
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780199207817
NCID BA91708419
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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