| Abstract | [Introduction]
If we are to understand language as a biological system, we need more than a purely formal description of its structure. We must also have an account of the behavioral and neurophysiological processes from which that structure derives. For many years, understanding of these processes rested almost entirely on inference from abnormal behavior in language breakdown. But over the past 30 years we have gained experimental access to normal language processes. The generative revolution in linguistics has precipitated empirically based, information-processing models of normal language function, and advances in neurophysiology have enlarged our grasp on underlying sensorimotor processes. The result is what amounts to a new subfield of language study, the neuropsychology of online language processing. This is the topic of the book under review. |
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