Eva M. Fernández is Professor at the City University of New York, USA. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic language processing in monolingual and bilingual populations; she has additional research interests in measures of student success in higher education. Helen Smith Cairns is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, USA. She has pursued research in sentence processing and in first language acquisition, writing or editing six books and numerous articles and chapters. She is most proud of the students she has mentored over the years.

Notes on Contributors x Prologue xxiii Eva M. Fernández and Helen Smith Cairns Part I Production 1 1 Overview 3 Fernanda Ferreira 2 Syntactic Encoding: Novel Insights Into the Relationship Between Grammar and Processing 13 Julie Franck 3 Signal Reduction and Linguistic Encoding 38 T. Florian Jaeger and Esteban Buz 4 Production in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers 82 Daniela Paolieri, Luis Morales, and Teresa Bajo 5 Production of Signed Utterances 111 Ronnie B. Wilbur 6 Parity and Disparity in Conversational Interaction 136 Jennifer S. Pardo 7 Models Linking Production and Comprehension 157 Chiara Gambi and Martin J. Pickering Part II Comprehension 183 8 Overview 185 Eva M. Fernández and Helen Smith Cairns 9 Speech Perception: Research, Theory, and Clinical Application 193 David B. Pisoni 10 Cross-Language and Second Language Speech Perception 213 Ocke-Schwen Bohn 11 Models of Lexical Access and Morphological Processing 240 Petar Milin, Eva Smolka, and Laurie Beth Feldman 12 Orthography, Word Recognition, and Reading 269 David Braze and Tao Gong 13 The Bilingual Lexicon 294 Judith F. Kroll and Fengyang Ma 14 Sentence Processing and Interpretation in Monolinguals and Bilinguals : Classical and Contemporary Approaches 320 Matthew J. Traxler, Liv J. Hoversten, and Trevor A. Brothers 15 The Comprehension of Anaphora and Verb Agreement 345 Janet L. Nicol and Andrew Barss 16 Prosody in Sentence Processing 365 Elizabeth Pratt 17 Semantic-Pragmatic Processing 392 Petra B. Schumacher 18 Comprehension in Older Adult Populations: Healthy Aging, Aphasia, and Dementia 411 Jet M. J. Vonk, Eve Higby, and Loraine K. Obler 19 Neurolinguistic Studies of Sentence Comprehension 438 Michael A. Skeide and Angela D. Friederici Part III Acquisition 457 20 Overview 459 Virginia Valian 21 Speech Perception in Infants: Propagating the Effects of Language Experience 470 Catherine T. Best 22 Children's Performance Abilities: Language Production 491 Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel, and Merrill F. Garrett 23 Language Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children 516 Krista Byers-Heinlein and Casey Lew-Williams 24 Names for Things... and Actions and Events: Following in the Footsteps of Roger Brown 536 Dani Levine, Kristina Strother-Garcia, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 25 The Acquisition of Morphology 567 Kamil Ud Deen 26 The Acquisition of Syntax 593 Nina Hyams and Robyn Orfitelli 27 Social Interaction and Language Acquisition: Toward a Neurobiological View 615 Sarah Roseberry Lytle and Patricia K. Kuhl 28 Bilingual Acquisition: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Simultaneous and Early Successive Language Development 635 Jurgen M. Meisel 29 The Development of Morphosyntax in Child and Adult Second Language Acquisition 653 Gita Martohardjono and Elaine C. Klein 30 Signed Language Acquisition: Input 674 Judy Kegl Index 705