This is an original, important and stimulating book, which attempts a Hegelian synthesis of
Piagetian constructivism and Fodorian modularity in terms of the author's own model of …

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

In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from …

The survey of discourse-processing models given in the previous chapter has shown that
these models have a number of serious shortcomings. Not only are they incomplete, as …

Gestures are seemingly trivial, but actually they are interesting and crucial components of
language. By studying them, in conjunction with language (not in isolation), we gain new …

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 …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

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

The analysis of referring expressions can be divided into two branches for our purposes.
The first includes theories of definite descriptions and proper names. The key to the riddle of …