Briefly Noted the Lexical Basis of Sentence Process- Ing: Formal, Computational, and Exper- Imental Issues Virtual Humans: a Build-it-yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by- Step Instructions

This volume contains 15 papers from a special session held at the 11th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (1998). There are three thematically arranged sections: proposals from theoretical linguistics, the lexicon– syntax relationship as regards processing, and the content of lexical entries. The first chapter summarizes the papers and discusses the broader issues raised in the book. (The full list of the papers is available from the publisher’s Web page.) There are many interesting and original contributions from computational and behavioral perspectives. These shed new light on open questions such as modularity in sentence processing, the distinction between lexical and structural processing, and argument structure relations with respect to verbal lexical entries. This book is an excellent resource for researchers interested in human language processing, and the computational linguist interested in the connection between probabilistic parsing and human sentence processing will find a number of the papers very satisfying.—Shravan Vasishth, Universität des Saarlandes