Cognitive Parsing in German: An Introduction

Research in human sentence processing is a genuinely cross-linguistic project. Since most theories of human parsing make predictions based on the architecture and the mechanisms of the human sentence processor in general, these predictions are assumed to hold for all human comprehenders irrespective of their mother tongue. Ideally, the only difference between processing phenomena in different languages should be due to different grammatical features of the respective languages. In this view, it should be possible to plug the grammar of a particular language into the sentence processor and have all sorts of syntactic complexity phenomena or preferences in ambiguity resolution fall out (Frazier, 1987). This enterprise can obviously only be pursued if theories of human language processing are applied to and tested in as many languages as possible. Nevertheless, by far the majority of research in human sentence processing has been carried out in English. This picture is now changing, however. More and more cross-linguistic studies on human language processing are being published on a wide variety of languages.

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