Understanding language requires more than the use of fixed conventions and more than
decoding combinatorial structure. Instead, comprehenders make exquisitely sensitive …

Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

Recent investigations of the acquisition of scalar implicature report that young children do
not reliably reject a sentence with a weak scalar term, eg 'some of the books are red', when it …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, we determined to what extent Grice's
maxim of informativeness as well as pragmatic ability contributes to the incremental build-up …

What makes human communication exceptional is the ability to grasp speaker's intentions
beyond what is said verbally. How the brain processes communicative functions is one of …

We present evidence that preschool children oftentimes understand disjunctive sentences
as if they were conjunctive. The result holds for matrix disjunctions as well as disjunctions …