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Comprehension Processes in Reading

by D. A. Balota, G. B. Flores D'Arcais, K. Rayner

Pages: 660

Contributors: D. A. Balota,G. B. Flores D'Arcais,K. Rayner

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication: Hillsdale, NJ

Publication Year: 1990

Subjects: Reading Comprehension--Congresses,Word Recognition--Congresses

Table of Contents

Title Page

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

1: Comprehension Processes: Introduction

I: Comprehension of Words

2: The Role of Meaning in Word Recognition

3: Lexical Access: Another Theoretical Soupstone?

4: Does the Reading System Need A Lexicon?

5: The Locus of the Associative-Priming Effect in the Mental Lexicon

6: Lexical Processing, Morphological Complexity and Reading

7: Eye Movements and Lexical Access in Reading

8: Lexical Access: Some Comments on Models and Metaphors

9: What's in A Word? Levels of Representation and Word Recognition

II: Syntactic Processes in Comprehension

10: The Cooperative Language Processors: Semantic Influences in an Autonomous Syntax

11: Parsing and Comprehension: A Multiple-Constraint View

12: Comprehending Sentences with Empty Elements

13: Reading in Different Languages: Is There A Universal Mechanism for Parsing Sentences?

14: Parsing Modifiers: Special Purpose Routines in the Human Sentence Processing Mechanism?

15: Connectionism: A Case for Modularity

16: Parsing Principles and Language Comprehension During Reading

III: Comprehension of Discourse

18: Which Elaborative Inferences Are Drawn During Reading? A Question of Methodologies

19: Textual Inferences: Models and Measures

20: The Causal Inference Maker: Towards A Process Model of Inference Generation in Text Comprehension

21: On the Control of Inferences in Text Understanding

22: Referential Processes in Reading: Focusing on Roles and Individuals

23: A Connectionist Model of Text Comprehension

24: On the Nature of Text-Driven Inferece

IV: Comprehension Failu`Res and Reading

25: Explaining Failures in Spoken Language Comprehension by Children with Reading Disabilities

26: Reading Comprehension in Dyslexic and Normal Readers: A Component- Skills Analysis

27: Semantic Processing in Dyslexia

28: Comprehension Problems in Dyslexia

29: Comprehension Failures

30: Comprehension Processes in Reading: Final Thoughts

Author Index

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