ABSTRACT

The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth develops a new sentence processing model that builds on existing theories and overcomes their empirical problems. Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.

chapter 1|30 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|21 pages

Three models of sentence processing

chapter 3|48 pages

The effect of identical case marking

chapter 6|27 pages

Word length, position, and reading time