An in-depth treatment of the major theories and issues in language understanding in cognitive psychology, for second- and third-year undergraduates. Introduces a representative selection of different research methods through activities, self-assessment questions, and problems in syntactic structures, semantic representations, and lexical, semantic, and anaphor processing. This second edition includes a new section addressing anaphoric reference. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.