Spoken language comprehension: An experimental approach to disordered and normal processing. L. K. Tyler. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. 306
Applied Psycholinguistics, Oct 1, 1993
This book synthesizes a unique cross-disciplinary effort bridging laboratory psycholinguistics an... more This book synthesizes a unique cross-disciplinary effort bridging laboratory psycholinguistics and clinical neurolinguistics that bears fruit for both. Tyler applies the well-known model of spoken language processing developed with William Marslen-Wilson (see, e.g., Marslen-Wilson & Tyler, 1980) and standard psycholinguistic tasks (such as word monitoring) to the characterization, in more precise terms, of the comprehension processing deficits of aphasic patients. The book is structured like a multi-experiment journal article. Chapter 1 is the introduction, sketching in broad strokes the underlying model of normal processing and justifying in detail the distinction and interpretation of on-line versus off-line assessment tasks. Chapter 2 is the rationale, providing a methodological overview and continuing, in more detail, the discussion of the methods used. Chapter 3 contains characterizations of the patients studied. Chapters 4 to 15 summarize the methods and results of the 12 experiments reported, in sections on the processes of contacting form representations, accessing lexical content, constructing higher level representations, and processing morphologically complex words in utterances. These divisions reflect the levels-of-processing organization of the underlying psycholinguistic model. The last two chapters correspond to the discussion section: Chapter 16 seeks to integrate the material accumulated, presenting the results by individual patient to characterize his or her on-line processing profile, and Chapter 17 takes up once again some of the methodological issues that the book raises. There are appendices describing the control subjects (Appendix A) and providing some details about the wordmonitoring task (Appendix B).
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