Information structure: linguistic, cognitive, and processing approaches

Information processing approaches to cognitive development

This chapter reviews the history and current status of information-processing approaches to cognitive development. Because the approach is so pervasive, it is useful to characterize research in terms of distinctive features, and to organize the features according to whether they are "soft-core" or "hard-core" aspects of the information processing approacn, as follows: Features of soft-core info...

Sentence Processing and Linguistic Structure

Linguistic Complexity and Information: Quantitative Approaches

The main goal of using language is to transmit information. One of the fundamental questions in linguistics concerns the way how information is conveyed by means of language in human communication. So far many researchers have supported the uniform information density (UID) hypothesis asserting that due to channel capacity, speakers tend to encode information strategically in order to achieve u...

Cross-linguistic approaches to speech processing.

Recent advances in the field of speech processing indicate that speakers of differing languages process speech relying on units that are appropriate to the rhythmical properties of their maternal tongue. Studies with young infants suggest that the acquisition of these processing routines takes place before the end of the first year of life. Further evidence shows that the left hemisphere initia...

Xxiv. Cognitive Information Processing

James R. Ellis, Jr. D Irvin S. Englander C Edward M. Garber N Richard S. Goldhor G Samuel M. Goldwasser J; Robert E. Green L Randolph B. Haagens J Monson H. Hayes J Gerald L. Hoover D Su Ling Hsu J Malik M. A. Khan J Gary E. Kopec V Theodore T. Kuklinski G Peter LaMaster L Robert C. Laurenson P Dr. Donald G. Ross Dr. Stephanie E. Sher Dr. Robert J. Shillman Caleb J. Drake M. Sharon Hunnicutt Ro...