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Language Processing in Spanish (Paperback)
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This book presents a set of contributions to the current flow of
psycholinguistic research, with new and challenging data gathered
from Spanish that may illuminate issues about the generality of
language processing models. Although it is possible to find a
considerable amount of papers on psycholinguistic research with the
Spanish language published in English-speaking journals,
unfortunately, the scientific community does not have access to an
overview of psycholinguistics in Spain. This book overcomes these
limitations because it brings together state-of-the-art
descriptions of the research and theory of the different subareas
of psycholinguistics currently being studied in Spain. Spanish, the
third most widely-used language in the world, differs from English
in a number of important respects. Since English has been
predominant in psycholinguistic research, contrasting properties of
Spanish may help to test the generality of language processing
mechanisms and to refine their description. The set of contrasting
features considered in this book includes acoustical and syllabic
transparency, shallow orthography, a much richer morphology,
flexibility in word order, less variability in intonational
contours, and the existence of null pronominal subjects for
inflected verbs. There are also interesting contrasts in the
frequency of different linguistic units, whose impact on language
processing is also evaluated. One of the main lines of argument
throughout this book deals with the tension between universality
and variation as a way of characterizing the functioning of
language capacities and processes. The variety of topics covered by
this book ranges from one end of the spectrum of language related
behavior to the other: speech perception, lexical access in word
recognition, relations between phonological and orthographic
representations, sentence processing, discourse comprehension, and
language production. All chapters focus on questions of general
interest within each topic, and in most cases they appeal to one
particular feature of the Spanish language that is relevant for a
given question. Most chapters show the indisputable importance of
crosslinguistic research in psycholinguistics to improve
understanding on whether universal cognitive mechanisms and
language specific routines underlie the ability of understanding
and producing language.
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