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 …

Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on
the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different …

Linguistic and psycholinguistic accounts based on the study of English may prove unreliable
as guides to sentence processing in even closely related languages. The present study …

Children were tested for their comprehension of four types of sentences with relative
clauses, in order to determine the role of the following factors in comprehension:(a) position …

Reference set computation-the construction of a (global) comparison set to determine
whether a given derivation is appropriate in context-comes with a processing cost. I argue …

The aim of the two experiments reported here was to distinguish between two heuristic
strategies that have been proposed to account for the assignment of pronouns: the subject …

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of"
Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular …

Publisher Summary This chapter investigates the comprehension of discourse-linked and
non discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics. The main goal of this …

Abstract Crawley et al.(1990) argue for the primacy of a 'subject assignment'strategy for
pronoun assignment during reading, and against the notion of 'parallel function'(Sheldon …

Child and adult speakers of English, Hungarian, and Italian described nine triplets of
pictures whose elements varied along the pragmatic dimension of givenness vs newness. In …