We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

The notion of salience has been singled out as the explanatory factor for a diverse range of
linguistic phenomena. In particular, perceptual salience (eg, visual salience of objects in the …

This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts.
The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb …

The current study investigated how a contextual list signal influences comprehenders'
inference generation of upcoming discourse relations and whether individual differences in …

The present study uses event-related potentials to investigate how crosslinguistic (dis)
similarities modulate anticipatory processing in the second language (L2). Participants read …

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal
reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus …

ABSTRACT Implicit Causality (I-Caus) and Implicit Consequentiality (I-Cons) biases (Peter
annoyed Mary because/and so…) have been argued to be rooted in the argument structure …

About half of the discourse relations annotated in Penn Discourse Treebank (Prasad et al.,
2008) are not explicitly marked using a discourse connective. But we do not have extensive …

Research has shown that people anticipate upcoming linguistic content, but most work to
date has focused on relatively short-range expectation-driven processes within the current …

1.1 Background Discourse marker research today still faces many terminological and
theoretical issues which restrain progress in the field, despite the multiplicity of theoretical …