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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Altmann, Gerry (University of Sussex, Brighton), Shillcock, Richard (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh); COGNITIVE MODELS OF SPEECH PROCESSING: THE SECOND SPERLONGA MEETING; 0-86377-302-8 [cloth] $79.95 ($45.57 special prepaid offer); Lawrence Erlbaum. 531pp. This edited volume addresses general theoretical concerns as well as the nature of the lexical representations onto which the speech input is mapped, the mapping process itself, and the processes that operate over the lexical representations to yield the meaning of the spoken sentence. Email: OrdersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueleahq.mhs.compuserv.com LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Thomas, Margaret KNOWLEDGE OF REFLEXIVES IN A SECOND LANGUAGE John Benjamins 1993 234 pp. Language Acquisition Cloth US:1 55619 241 X/EUR:90 272 2469 2 US$59.00/Hfl.110,-- This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language -- and concludes that they do. Japanese, English and Spanish are used.