Contents. Chapter 1. Methods in reading research. p.. p.1.-- Chapter 2. Why study spoken language?. p.33.-- Chapter 3. Eye movements in reading psycholinguistic studies. p.57.-- Chapter 4. Psycholinguistics electrified: event-related brain potential investigations. p.83.-- Chapter 5. A guide to research on the perception of speech. p.145.-- Chapter 6. Speech perception as a tractable problem in cognitive science. p.173.-- Chapter 7. Psychological aspects of speech perception: implications for research and theory. p.219.-- Chapter 8. Spoken word recognition: research and theory. p.265.-- Chapter 9. Visual word recognition: the journey from features to meaning. p.303.-- Chapter 10. Context and the processing of ambiguous words. p.359.-- Chapter 11. Sentence parsing. p.375.-- Chapter 12. Figurative thought and figurative language. p.411.-- Chapter 13. Understanding figurative language. p.447.-- Chapter 14. Discourse inference processes. p.479.-- Chapter 15. Question asking and answering. p.517.-- Chapter 16. Comprehension and memory of narrative. Texts: inferences and coherence. p.539.-- Chapter 17. Levels of representation in memory for discourse. p.589.-- Chapter 18. Analogical processes in comprehension: simulation of a mental model. p.609.-- Chapter 19. Understanding expository text: building mental structures to induce insights. p.641.-- Chapter 20. Resolving sentences in a discourse context: how discourse representation affects language understanding. p.675.-- Chapter 21. Selective processing in text understanding. p.699.-- Chapter 22. The psychology of discourse processing. p.721.-- Chapter 23. Recent controversies in the study of language acquisition. p.741.-- Chapter 24. Child phonology: past research, present questions, future directions. p.781.-- Chapter 25. Individual differences in children's text comprehension. p.821.-- Chapter 26. Psycholinguistics and reading ability.. p.849.-- Chapter 27. Languaje deficits in "specific" reading disability. p.895.
