ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will describe a particular approach to the study of language disorders. This approach has two major characteristics. First, it focusses on the real-time properties of language comprehension: by this I mean the set of mental processes which take place in the mind of the listener as he or she attempts to interpret a speech input. Second, the approach depends for its concepts and framework on a model of real-time language processing in normal listeners. I will begin by summarising the properties of this model.
