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 …
Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology …
Although research on multilingualism has revealed continued neuroplasticity for language- learning beyond what was previously expected, it remains controversial whether and to what …
EM Vecchi, M Marelli, R Zamparelli… - Cognitive …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sophisticated senator and legislative onion. Whether or not you have ever heard of these things, we all have some intuition that one of them makes much less sense than the other. In …
WS Horton - The Routledge handbook of discourse processes, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides a highly selective overview of scholarly work, focusing primarily upon several major strands of research that have had—and continue to have—a strong influence …
A Doherty, K Conklin - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
How sensitive is pronoun processing to expectancies based on real-world knowledge and language usage? The current study links research on the integration of gender stereotypes …
In this paper, we introduce a new distributional method for modeling predicate-argument thematic fit judgments. We use a syntax-based DSM to build a prototypical representation of …
In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event- subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (eg, The author began the book) …
This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics-the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a clear structure, it explains formal …