ABSTRACT
First published in 1978. Cognitive Processes in Comprehension is a look at what goes on in the mind of the listener or reader when he hears a sentence during a conversation or reads a passage in a book. For most adults, comprehension is rapid, automatic, and effortless. But, despite its apparent simplicity, comprehension includes a myriad of subprocesses, each of which by itself constitutes a formidable computational task.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Knowledge Sources in Comprehension
part II|140 pages
Psychological Mechanisms in Comprehension
part III|76 pages
Modeling Language Comprehension