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Investigating certain of those processes involved in the comprehension and production of language, this book adopts the perspective that these processes involve the interaction of certain strategies with the knowledge of linguistic structures. The thrust of the book is two-fold. First, it focuses on those strategies devoted to the processing of complex sentences. The argument is advanced that these can be reduced to a small set of quite general cognitive strategies which, although independent of the particulars of a given language, interact with the structures of that language during the processes of comprehension and production. Secondly, a series of studies is reported, including experiments dealing with comprehension and production, text analyses and cross-language experiments, in which the empirical predictions associated with the strategies are investigated. It is concluded that certain of the strategies are indeed operative in language processing while others must be discarded as having no empirical content.

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