Language Comprehension

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. The Recognition of Spoken Words

   • Ulrich H. Frauenfelder, Caroline Floccia

   Pages 1-40

3. Prosodic Structure and Word Recognition

   • Anne Cutler

   Pages 41-70

4. Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts

   • Pienie Zwitserlood

   Pages 71-99

5. Morphology and Word Recognition

   • Herbert Schriefers

   Pages 101-132

6. The Architecture of the Mental Lexicon

   • Johannes Engelkamp, Ralf Rummer

   Pages 133-174

7. The Reading of Words and Sentences

   • Evelyn Ferstl, Giovanni Flores d’Arcais

   Pages 175-210

8. Sentence Parsing

   • Gerard Kempen

   Pages 211-227

9. Discourse Comprehension

   • Leo Noordman, Wietske Vonk

   Pages 229-263

10. The Neurobiology of Language Comprehension

    • Angela D. Friederici

    Pages 265-304

11. Back Matter

    Pages 305-316

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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.

• Comprehension
• Kognition
• Language
• Sprache
• Verstehen
• Word recognition
• Worterkennung
• architecture
• cognition
• morphology
• neurobiology
• research

• Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany

  Angela D. Friederici

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