Three experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some
using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine …

This chapter illustrates the use of probabilistic techniques in natural language pragmatics
and semantics with a concrete formal model. This model shows that a probabilistic …

Numerous authors report that people with aphasia have greater difficulty allocating attention
than people without neurological disorders. Studying how attention deficits contribute to …

Accounts of visually situated language processing accommodate an active role of the visual
context and a tight temporal coordination between comprehension, visual attention, and …

Psycholinguistic research using the visual world paradigm has shown that the processing of
sentences is constrained by the visual context in which they occur. Recently, there has been …

Purpose We aimed at further elucidating whether aphasic patients' difficulties in
understanding non-canonical sentence structures, such as Passive or Object-Verb-Subject …

Lesen stellt einen hochkomplexen kognitiven Vorgang dar, der sich in mehrere miteinander
interagierende Teilprozesse untergliedern lässt: Die Erforschung dieser Teilprozesse und …

We describe an empirical study that crowdsourced human-authored recovery strategies for
various problems encountered in physically situated dialogue. The purpose was to …

The role of morphological and syntactic information in non-native second language (L2)
comprehension is controversial. Some have argued that late bilinguals rapidly integrate …

A large part of human communication involves referring to entities in the world, and often
these entities are objects that are visually present for the interlocutors. A computer system …