Recent research in semantics and pragmatics has revived the debate about whether there
are two cognitively distinct categories of conversational implicatures: generalised and …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

Publisher Summary Eye movements have become a widely used response measure for
studying spoken language processing in both adults and children, in situations where …

Desmet, Brysbaert, and De Baecke (2002a) showed that the production of relative clauses
following two potential attachment hosts (eg,'Someone shot the servant of the actress who …

Inspired by adult models of language production and comprehension, we investigate
whether children's nonadult interpretation of ambiguous negative quantified sentences …

Prepositional phrase attachment was investigated in temporarily ambiguous sentences.
Both attachment site (noun phrase or verb phrase) and argument status (argument or …

In the early 1980s, sentence comprehension deficits were attributed to a loss of syntactic
knowledge in agrammatic Broca's aphasics and to a short-term memory deficit in conduction …

Class inclusion theory asserts that one cannot reverse the topic and vehicle of a metaphor
and produce a new, meaningful metaphor that is based on the same interpretive ground. In …

Естественному языку свойственны предложения, в которых существует более одного
способа синтаксического анализа, и носитель языка должен преодолеть эту …

As you skim over this paragraph, trying to decide whether or not to read the whole chapter,
you are not consciously aware of all the mental processes you are using to read it. For …