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On the on-line study of language comprehens
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Abstract
Language has been studied in many ways. It has been examined as art, as a basis of
philosophical investigations, and as a way of gaining insight into the human mind.
During the past fifty years, practitioners of various scientific disciplines have developed
objective ways of studying language. Linguists try to understand language through the
construction of theories of abstract linguistic knowledge. Psycholinguists try to
understand how language users engage this knowledge in comprehension and
production. Neuroscientists have been digging into the biological substrate of language.
The present book provides a glimpse of how research done by linguists,
psycholinguists, and neuroscientists can be brought to bear on a fundamentally
psychological question, how language is comprehended in real time.
