Acquired language disorders after stroke are strongly associated with left hemisphere
damage. When language difficulties are observed in the context of right hemisphere strokes …

The meaning of most words in language depends on their context. Understanding how the
human brain extracts contextualized meaning, and identifying where in the brain this takes …

Semantic composition, the ability to combine single words to form complex meanings, is a
core feature of human language. Despite growing interest in the basis of semantic …

Communication through spoken language is a central human capacity, involving a wide
range of complex computations that incrementally interpret each word into meaningful …

This study examined whether entity-denoting complements of psych verbs and aspectual
verbs engender identical processing profiles. Previous literature has suggested that both …

Abstract At least since Quine (From a logical point of view. Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, MA, 1953) it has been suspected that a semantic theory that rests on defining …

A sentence such as We finished the paper is indeterminate with regards to what we finished
doing with the paper. Indeterminate sentences constitute a test case for two major issues …

By literal meaning (LM) we usually refer to a theoretical notion which is at the center of a big
debate involving philosophers and linguists with various orientations. At the same time, LM …

What are the roles of semantic and pragmatic processes in the interpretation of sentences in
context? And how do we attain such interpretations when sentences are deemed …

Modularity is a hypothesis about a nomological distinction between perceptual, input-driven
computations and background knowledge. It hinges on the very nature of representations …