▪ Abstract The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of
representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse …

Successful language comprehension often requires comprehenders to infer contrastive
focus alternatives, but the mechanisms used to establish contrastive alternatives are still …

We report two visual-world eye-tracking experiments that investigated the effects of
subjecthood, pronominalisation, and contrastive focus on the interpretation of pronouns in …

The goal of this chapter is to build on previous models of discourse comprehension that
break reading into two components: activation and integration. We describe a new model of …

To highlight relevant information in dialogues, both wh-question context and pitch accent in
answers can be used, such that focused information gains more attention and is processed …

Event-related brain potentials were recorded during RSVP reading to test the hypothesis
that quantifier expressions are incrementally interpreted fully and immediately. In sentences …

Three experiments investigated how font emphasis influences reading and remembering
discourse. Although past work suggests that contrastive pitch contours benefit memory by …

Three experiments explored whether patterns of eye movements during reading might help
explain syntactic prominence effects that are typically observed using reaction time tasks …

Cue-based retrieval theories of sentence processing posit that long-distance dependency
formation is guided by a cue-based retrieval mechanism: dependents are retrieved via …

Next to propositional content, speakers distribute information in their utterances in such a
way that listeners can make a distinction between new (focused) and given (non-focused) …