Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Accessibility theory (Ariel 1985a, 1990 and onwards) describes how human language,
speciWcally, the referential system, is responsive to facts about human memory, where …

In this paper we propose six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating
the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse. These statuses are the …

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

A major issue in understanding how language is implemented in the brain involves
understanding the use of language in language comprehension and production. How-ever …

The process of text comprehension requires the integration of the information in the
sentence currently being read with information previously read. This, in turn, implies that …

There is increasing awareness of the large degree of crosslinguistic diversity involved in the
structural realization of information packaging (or information structure). Whereas English …

This paper reports the results of five experiments designed to investigate the effects of
referential processing on sentence complexity. Gibson (Cognition, 68 (1998) 1) suggested …

The processing of noun-phrase (NP) anaphors in discourse is argued to reflect constraints
on the activation and processing of semantic information in working memory. The proposed …

This book concerns the development of a definite article in spoken Finnish. Standard written
Finnish has no articles; in that variety of the language, definiteness is thought to be implied …