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.

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• Notes on Contributors xPrologue xxiiiEva M. Fernández and Helen Smith CairnsPart I Production 11 Overview 3Fernanda Ferreira2 Syntactic Encoding: Novel Insights Into the Relationship Between Grammar and Processing 13Julie Franck3 Signal Reduction and Linguistic Encoding 38T. Florian Jaeger and Esteban Buz4 Production in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers 82Daniela Paolieri, Luis Morales, and Teresa Bajo5 Production of Signed Utterances 111Ronnie B. Wilbur6 Parity and Disparity in Conversational Interaction 136Jennifer S. Pardo7 Models Linking Production and Comprehension 157Chiara Gambi and Martin J. PickeringPart II Comprehension 1838 Overview 185Eva M. Fernández and Helen Smith Cairns9 Speech Perception: Research, Theory, and Clinical Application 193David B. Pisoni10 Cross‐Language and Second Language Speech Perception 213Ocke‐Schwen Bohn11 Models of Lexical Access and Morphological Processing 240Petar Milin, Eva Smolka, and Laurie Beth Feldman12 Orthography, Word Recognition, and Reading 269David Braze and Tao Gong13 The Bilingual Lexicon 294Judith F. Kroll and Fengyang Ma14 Sentence Processing and Interpretation in Monolinguals and Bilinguals : Classical and Contemporary Approaches 320Matthew J. Traxler, Liv J. Hoversten, and Trevor A. Brothers15 The Comprehension of Anaphora and Verb Agreement 345Janet L. Nicol and Andrew Barss16 Prosody in Sentence Processing 365Elizabeth Pratt17 Semantic‐Pragmatic Processing 392Petra B. Schumacher18 Comprehension in Older Adult Populations: Healthy Aging, Aphasia, and Dementia 411Jet M. J. Vonk, Eve Higby, and Loraine K. Obler19 Neurolinguistic Studies of Sentence Comprehension 438Michael A. Skeide and Angela D. FriedericiPart III Acquisition 45720 Overview 459Virginia Valian21 Speech Perception in Infants: Propagating the Effects of Language Experience 470Catherine T. Best22 Children’s Performance Abilities: Language Production 491Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel, and Merrill F. Garrett23 Language Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children 516Krista Byers‐Heinlein and Casey Lew‐Williams24 Names for Things… and Actions and Events: Following in the Footsteps of Roger Brown 536Dani Levine, Kristina Strother‐Garcia, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff25 The Acquisition of Morphology 567Kamil Ud Deen26 The Acquisition of Syntax 593Nina Hyams and Robyn Orfitelli27 Social Interaction and Language Acquisition: Toward a Neurobiological View 615Sarah Roseberry Lytle and Patricia K. Kuhl28 Bilingual Acquisition: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Simultaneous and Early Successive Language Development 635Jurgen M. Meisel29 The Development of Morphosyntax in Child and Adult Second Language Acquisition 653Gita Martohardjono and Elaine C. Klein30 Signed Language Acquisition: Input 674Judy KeglIndex 705

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.

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• Notes on Contributors xPrologue xxiiiEva M. Fernández and Helen Smith CairnsPart I Production 11 Overview 3Fernanda Ferreira2 Syntactic Encoding: Novel Insights Into the Relationship Between Grammar and Processing 13Julie Franck3 Signal Reduction and Linguistic Encoding 38T. Florian Jaeger and Esteban Buz4 Production in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers 82Daniela Paolieri, Luis Morales, and Teresa Bajo5 Production of Signed Utterances 111Ronnie B. Wilbur6 Parity and Disparity in Conversational Interaction 136Jennifer S. Pardo7 Models Linking Production and Comprehension 157Chiara Gambi and Martin J. PickeringPart II Comprehension 1838 Overview 185Eva M. Fernández and Helen Smith Cairns9 Speech Perception: Research, Theory, and Clinical Application 193David B. Pisoni10 Cross‐Language and Second Language Speech Perception 213Ocke‐Schwen Bohn11 Models of Lexical Access and Morphological Processing 240Petar Milin, Eva Smolka, and Laurie Beth Feldman12 Orthography, Word Recognition, and Reading 269David Braze and Tao Gong13 The Bilingual Lexicon 294Judith F. Kroll and Fengyang Ma14 Sentence Processing and Interpretation in Monolinguals and Bilinguals : Classical and Contemporary Approaches 320Matthew J. Traxler, Liv J. Hoversten, and Trevor A. Brothers15 The Comprehension of Anaphora and Verb Agreement 345Janet L. Nicol and Andrew Barss16 Prosody in Sentence Processing 365Elizabeth Pratt17 Semantic‐Pragmatic Processing 392Petra B. Schumacher18 Comprehension in Older Adult Populations: Healthy Aging, Aphasia, and Dementia 411Jet M. J. Vonk, Eve Higby, and Loraine K. Obler19 Neurolinguistic Studies of Sentence Comprehension 438Michael A. Skeide and Angela D. FriedericiPart III Acquisition 45720 Overview 459Virginia Valian21 Speech Perception in Infants: Propagating the Effects of Language Experience 470Catherine T. Best22 Children’s Performance Abilities: Language Production 491Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel, and Merrill F. Garrett23 Language Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children 516Krista Byers‐Heinlein and Casey Lew‐Williams24 Names for Things… and Actions and Events: Following in the Footsteps of Roger Brown 536Dani Levine, Kristina Strother‐Garcia, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff25 The Acquisition of Morphology 567Kamil Ud Deen26 The Acquisition of Syntax 593Nina Hyams and Robyn Orfitelli27 Social Interaction and Language Acquisition: Toward a Neurobiological View 615Sarah Roseberry Lytle and Patricia K. Kuhl28 Bilingual Acquisition: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Simultaneous and Early Successive Language Development 635Jurgen M. Meisel29 The Development of Morphosyntax in Child and Adult Second Language Acquisition 653Gita Martohardjono and Elaine C. Klein30 Signed Language Acquisition: Input 674Judy KeglIndex 705

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.

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• Notes on Contributors xPrologue xxiiiEva M. Fernández and Helen Smith CairnsPart I Production 11 Overview 3Fernanda Ferreira2 Syntactic Encoding: Novel Insights Into the Relationship Between Grammar and Processing 13Julie Franck3 Signal Reduction and Linguistic Encoding 38T. Florian Jaeger and Esteban Buz4 Production in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers 82Daniela Paolieri, Luis Morales, and Teresa Bajo5 Production of Signed Utterances 111Ronnie B. Wilbur6 Parity and Disparity in Conversational Interaction 136Jennifer S. Pardo7 Models Linking Production and Comprehension 157Chiara Gambi and Martin J. PickeringPart II Comprehension 1838 Overview 185Eva M. Fernández and Helen Smith Cairns9 Speech Perception: Research, Theory, and Clinical Application 193David B. Pisoni10 Cross‐Language and Second Language Speech Perception 213Ocke‐Schwen Bohn11 Models of Lexical Access and Morphological Processing 240Petar Milin, Eva Smolka, and Laurie Beth Feldman12 Orthography, Word Recognition, and Reading 269David Braze and Tao Gong13 The Bilingual Lexicon 294Judith F. Kroll and Fengyang Ma14 Sentence Processing and Interpretation in Monolinguals and Bilinguals : Classical and Contemporary Approaches 320Matthew J. Traxler, Liv J. Hoversten, and Trevor A. Brothers15 The Comprehension of Anaphora and Verb Agreement 345Janet L. Nicol and Andrew Barss16 Prosody in Sentence Processing 365Elizabeth Pratt17 Semantic‐Pragmatic Processing 392Petra B. Schumacher18 Comprehension in Older Adult Populations: Healthy Aging, Aphasia, and Dementia 411Jet M. J. Vonk, Eve Higby, and Loraine K. Obler19 Neurolinguistic Studies of Sentence Comprehension 438Michael A. Skeide and Angela D. FriedericiPart III Acquisition 45720 Overview 459Virginia Valian21 Speech Perception in Infants: Propagating the Effects of Language Experience 470Catherine T. Best22 Children’s Performance Abilities: Language Production 491Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel, and Merrill F. Garrett23 Language Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children 516Krista Byers‐Heinlein and Casey Lew‐Williams24 Names for Things… and Actions and Events: Following in the Footsteps of Roger Brown 536Dani Levine, Kristina Strother‐Garcia, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff25 The Acquisition of Morphology 567Kamil Ud Deen26 The Acquisition of Syntax 593Nina Hyams and Robyn Orfitelli27 Social Interaction and Language Acquisition: Toward a Neurobiological View 615Sarah Roseberry Lytle and Patricia K. Kuhl28 Bilingual Acquisition: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Simultaneous and Early Successive Language Development 635Jurgen M. Meisel29 The Development of Morphosyntax in Child and Adult Second Language Acquisition 653Gita Martohardjono and Elaine C. Klein30 Signed Language Acquisition: Input 674Judy KeglIndex 705