The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward develo** a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

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

The results of two experiments indicate that individual differences in syntactic processing are
governed in part by the amount of working memory capacity available for language …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Verbal ('sentential','clausal') complements are one type of subordi nate ('dependent')
clauses. Semantically, a verbal complement is a fullfledged proposition with its own …

This book presents a new theoretical framework--what Gernsbacher calls the Structure
Building Framework--for understanding language comprehension in particular, and …

This paper examines the transferability of successful cueing approaches from text and static
visualization research to animations. Theories of visual attention and learning as well as …

Two experiments investigated the focusing properties of thematic roles, while a third
experiment investigated the view that thematic role preferences reflect a focusing on the …

During the past decade I have been develo** a very simple framework for describing the
cognitive processes and mechanisms involved in discourse comprehension. I call this …

One of the classic puzzles of language is posed by the phenomenon of discontinous
dependency, in which the form of an element at one point in an utterance depends on the …