Communicating meaning is a primary goal of everyday language use. One significant puzzle
in the study of linguistic comprehension is that the meaning communicated via language …

The importance of pre-nuclear prominences for focus marking has been largely neglected.
Recent studies, however, present first evidence that the prosody of the pre-nuclear region …

Listeners face multiple challenges in mapping prosody onto intentions: The relevant
intentions vary with the general context of an utterance (eg, the speaker's goals) and how …

This research investigated whether observing beat gesture and hearing contrastive
accenting with novel words enhances their learning in early childhood and whether these …

Crossmodal interaction in situated language comprehension is important for effective and
efficient communication. The relationship between linguistic and visual stimuli provides …

Language is a system that gives physical form to meaning by combining discrete elements.
In order to use language, people must learn the specific ways in which their language …

Excellence in communication skills requires an ability to appropriately represent the
discourse structure including focus, as well as good comprehension of speaker affect. Both …

A common dependent measure used in visual-world eyetracking experiments is the
proportion of looks to a visually depicted object in a certain time window after the onset of …

A prominent pitch accent is known to trigger immediate contrastive interpretation of the
accented referential expression. Previous experimental demonstrations of this effect, where …

The scalar quantifier some is locally ambiguous between pragmatic (some-but-not-all) and
literal (some-and-possibly-all) meanings. Although comprehenders typically favour an …