Reference List
This list of references is keyed to the syllabus and contains core readings. The list may be modified during any term and actual assignments may be added to this list.
1. Chomsky, N. (1986). Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin, and use. New York: Praeger Publishers.
2. Bransford, J.D., & Johnson, M.K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11, 717-726.
3. Perfetti, C.A. (1989). There are generalized abilities and one of them is reading. In L.B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, learning and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
4. Forster, K.I. (1979). Levels of processing and the structure of the language processor. In W.E. Cooper and E.C.T. Walker (Eds.), Sentence processing: Psycholinguistic studies presented to Merrill Garrett. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
5. Fodor, J. (1983). The modularity of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Marslen-Wilson, W., & Tyler, L.K. (1987). Against modularity. In J.L. Garfield (Ed.), Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. McClelland, J. The Case for Interactionism in Language Processing
8. Mitchell, D. (1987). Reading and syntactic analysis. In J.R. Beech & A.M. Colley (Eds.), Cognitive approaches to reading. John Wiley.
9. Frazier, L. (1987). Sentence processing: A tutorial review. In M. Coltheart (Ed.), Attention and performance XII: The psychology of reading. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA
10. Clifton, C., & Ferreira, F. (1987). Modularity in sentence comprehension. In J.L. Garfield (Ed.), Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
11. Perfetti, C.A. (1990). The cooperative language processors: Semantic influences in an autonomous syntax. In D.A. Balota, G.B. Flores D'Arcais, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Comprehension processes in reading. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
12. Britt, M.A., Perfetti, C.A., Garrod, S., & Rayner, K. (1992). Parsing in discourse: Context effects and their limits. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 293-314.
13. Swinney, D. (1979). Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)Consideration of context effects. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 645-659.
14. Neill, W.T., Hilliard, D.V., & Cooper, E-A. (1988). The detection of lexical ambiguity: Evidence for context-sensitive parallel access. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 279-287.
15. Tabossi, P. (1988). Accessing lexical ambiguity in different types of sentential contexts. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 324-340.
16. Simpson, G.D., & Krueger, M.A. Selective access of homograph meanings in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 627-643.
17. Rayner, K., & Frazier, L. (1989). Selection mechanisms in reading lexically ambiguous words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 779-790.
18. Gibbs, R.W. (1990). Comprehending figurative referential descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 56-66.
19. Rayner. K, Sereno, S.C., Morris, R.K., Schmauder, A.R., & Clifton, C. (1989). Eye movements and on-line language comprehension processes. Language and Cognitive Processes, 4, 21-49.
20. Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., & Atkins, P. (In press). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed processing approaches.
21. Van Orden, G.C. Pennington, B.F., & Stone, G.O. (1990). Word identification in reading and the promise of subsymbolic psycholinguistics. Psychological Review, 97, 488-522.
22. Perfetti, C.A., Zhang, S., & Berent, I (in press). Reading English and Chinese: Evidence for a "universal" phonological principle. In R. Frost & L. Katz (Eds.), Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
23. Kintsch, W. How readers construct situation models for stories: The role of syntactic cues and causal inferences.
24. Garrod, S., & Sanford, A. (1990). Referential processing in reading: Focusing on roles and individuals. in Balota book (9)
25. McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1992). Inference during reading. Psychological Review, 99, 440- 466.
26. Gernsbacher, M.A. (1990). "Individual differences in structure building". Chapter 5 of Language comprehension as structure building. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
27. Perfetti, C.A. "Psycholinguistics & Reading Ability." In M.A. Gernsbacher Handbook of Psycholinguistics.
28. Marslen-Wilson, W. (1984). Function and process in spoken word recognition: A tutorial review. In H. Bouma, & D.G. Bouhuis (Eds.), Attention and performance X: Control of language processes. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA
29. Bock, K. (1986). Meaning sound and syntax: Lexical priming in sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 4, 575-586.
30. Dell. G.S. (1986). A spreading activation
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