Massaro Dominic W. (ed). Understanding Language: An Information-Processing Analysis of Speech Perception, Reading, and Psycholinguistics

Academic Press Inc, 1975. — 451 р.Three years ago we set out to understand how language is processed. The recent advances in experimental psychology in the information-processing area encouraged us to develop and utilize an information-processing approach to language processing. This task seemed appropriate because we aimed to describe how language is processed, not simply what the listener or reader must know to understand language. In the information-processing approach, language processing is viewed as a sequence of psychological (mental) stages that occur between the initial presentation of the language stimulus and the meaning in the mind of the language processor. Our goal was to define each of the processes and structures
involved and to understand how each of them operates. This volume is intended to communicate what we have learned in this exciting and rewarding adventure.