First Sentence

"The chapters in this volume reflect many of the general theoretical concerns that have motivated research on speech and language processing over the past decade-modularity in language processing, interaction between bottom-up and top-down processing, the significance of connectionist modelling, the processing of languages other than English-as well as more specific concerns such 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 ultimately the meaning of the spoken sentence."