Six studies investigated the relationship between production and comprehension by examining how relative clause production mechanisms influence the probabilistic …
Die Psycholinguistik soll zwei Zwecken dienen. Der Band präsentiert das Bild, das man sich heute von den kognitiven Zuständen und Vorgängen des sprachlichen Wissens, des …
Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of …
Two eye-movement experiments examined the processing of sentences containing reduced relative constructions. In the first experiment, animacy of the sentential subject, structural …
WS Horton - Discourse Processes, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Speakers in conversation routinely engage in audience design. That is, they construct their utterances to be understood by particular addressees. Standard accounts of audience …
Humans have the capacity to draw common-sense inferences from natural language: various things that are likely but not certain to hold based on established discourse, and are …
An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that …
K Matsuki, T Chow, M Hare, JL Elman… - Journal of …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
In some theories of sentence comprehension, linguistically relevant lexical knowledge, such as selectional restrictions, is privileged in terms of the time-course of its access and …
The authors show that verb aspect influences the activation of event knowledge with 4 novel results. First, common locations of events (eg, arena) are primed following verbs with …