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Recent Advances in the Psychology of Language

Formal and Experimental Approaches

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Robin N. Campbell

    1. University of Stirling, Scotland

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  2. Philip T. Smith

    1. University of Stirling, Scotland

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 4b)

Part of the book sub series: III Human Factors (HF)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Formal Approaches

    1. Learning the Syntax of Questions

      • William Labov, Teresa Labov
      Pages 1-44

    2. Semantics and Language Acquisition: Some Theoretical Considerations

      • David S. Palermo
      Pages 45-54

    3. Empirical Questions About Developmental Psycholinguistics Raised by a Theory of Language Acquisition

      • Kenneth Wexler
      Pages 55-69

    4. The Interplay of Semantic and Surface Structure Acquisition

      • Larry H. Reeker
      Pages 71-90

    5. Predictive Understanding

      • Roger C. Schank
      Pages 91-101

    6. Sentence Construction by a Psychologically Plausible Formulator

      • Gerard Kempen
      Pages 103-123

    7. A Computational Model of Discourse Production

      • A. C. Davey, H. C. Longuet-Higgins
      Pages 125-136

    8. Structure and Use of Verbs of Motion

      • W. J. M. Levelt, R. Schreuder, E. Hoenkamp
      Pages 137-162

    9. Verbs of Judging and Acts of Judging

      • Ivana Markova
      Pages 163-170

    10. A Programmatic Theory of Linguistic Performance

      • M. J. Steedman, P. N. Johnson-Laird
      Pages 171-192

    11. On the Re-Integration of Linguistics and Psychology

      • Bruce L. Derwing, William J. Baker
      Pages 193-218

    12. Language Acquisition as the Addition of Verbal Routines

      • D. A. Booth
      Pages 219-241

    13. Syntax and Semantics for the Psycholinguist

      • J. Miller
      Pages 243-262

    14. Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clauses

      • Renate Bartsch
      Pages 263-288

  3. Sentence Comprehension and Production

    1. Foreground and Background Information in Reasoning

      • Leo G. M. Noordman
      Pages 289-303

    2. Anaphora: A Problem in Text Comprehension

      • Simon Garrod, Anthony Sanford
      Pages 305-314

    3. Sentence Comprehension Processes in the Pre-Schooler

      • Donald J. Foss, Randolph G. Bias, Prentice Starkey
      Pages 315-333

    4. Reference as a Speech Art: An Argument for Studying the Listener

      • S. R. Rochester
      Pages 335-345

    5. Gesture and Silence as Indicators of Planning in Speech

      • Brian Butterworth, Geoffrey Beattie
      Pages 347-360
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About this book

The Stirling Psychology of Language Conference was held in the University of Stirling, 21-26 June 1976. 250 people attended the conference and 70 papers were presented. The two volumes of Pro­ ceedings present a selection of papers from the conference reflect­ ing as far as possible the range of topics that were discussed. Volume 1 is concerned exclusively with language acquisition. In recent years the 'centre of gravity' of acquisition research has shifted from syntactic and phonological description to the amor­ phous domains of semantics and pragmatics. This shift is reflected in the two large sections (II and III) devoted to these aspects of language development. In addition the volume contains three smaller sections dealing with general problems of acquisition theory, syntax and the development of comprehension, and applied developmental psycholinguistics. Volume 2 contains a substantial section of papers which stress the formal aspects of psycholinguistics: these include papers in which artificial intelligence figures prominently, papers which apply re­ cent developments in syntax and semantics to psycholinguistic prob­ lems, and papers that are broadly critical of the use psychologists have made of linguistic theories. Volume 2 also contains a section dealing with the experimental study of sentence comprehension and production, and there is a final section concerned with phonology and its development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Stirling, Scotland

    Robin N. Campbell, Philip T. Smith

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Advances in the Psychology of Language

  • Book Subtitle: Formal and Experimental Approaches

  • Editors: Robin N. Campbell, Philip T. Smith

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2532-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2534-5Published: 17 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2532-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 432

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Psychology Research

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