Stephen Kintz,Heather Harris Wright
Stephen Kintz
Semantic memory is relatively stable across the lifespan (Rönnlund, Nyberg, & Bäckman, 2005; Spaniol, Madden, & Voss, 2006); however, most research has been conducted at the single concept level. Few researchers have examined how semantic...
Andrés Buxó-Lugo,Joseph C Toscano,Duane G Watson
Andrés Buxó-Lugo
It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information, like discourse status, are driven primarily by the information structure of the conversation. This article investigates whether speakers have the capacity to ad...
Talking about SOME and ALL: What determines the usage of quantity-denoting expressions? [0.03%]
谈“一些”与“所有”：量词的使用受什么影响？
Yi Ting Huang,Jennifer E Arnold
Yi Ting Huang
Reference production is often studied through single dimensions of contrast (e.g., "tall glass" when there are one or two glasses of varying height). Yet real-world communication is rarely so simple, raising questions about the factors guid...
Constanze Schreiner,Markus Appel,Maj-Britt Isberner et al.
Constanze Schreiner et al.
Stories are a powerful means to change people's attitudes and beliefs. The aim of the current work was to shed light on the role of argument strength (argument quality) in narrative persuasion. The present study examined the influence of st...
Internet-Based Communication [0.03%]
基于互联网的通信
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Google the question, "How is the Internet changing the way we communicate?," and you will find no shortage of opinions, or fears, about the Internet altering the way we communicate. Although the Internet is not necessarily making communicat...
Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Rachel R W Robertson,Paola Palladino et al.
Morton Ann Gernsbacher et al.
Three experiments investigated how readers manage their mental representations during narrative comprehension. The first experiment investigated whether readers' access to their mental representations of the main character in a narrative be...
Ted J M Sanders,Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Ted J M Sanders
Accessibility is one of the most important challenges at the intersection of linguistic and psycholinguistic studies of text and discourse processing. Linguists have shown how linguistic indicators of referential coherence show a systematic...
Tracy Linderholm,Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Paul van den Broek et al.
Tracy Linderholm et al.
The objective of this study was to determine how readers process narrative texts when the main character has multiple, and changing, goals. Readers must keep track of such goals to understand the causal relations between text events, an imp...
Dieter Haenggi,Walter Kintsch,Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Dieter Haenggi
Three experiments examined how readers inferred spatial information that was relevant to a story character's movements through a previously memorized layout of a fictional building relative to various tasks. This study also examined how inf...
In Search of Complete Comprehension: Getting "Minimalists" to Work [0.03%]
寻求全面理解：“极简主义者”的语言研究方法之得与失
Julie Foertsch,Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Julie Foertsch
Three experiments illustrated that readers will not completely comprehend the sentences they read unless sufficiently motivated by situational demands. Complete comprehension of a topic is defined as the ability to accurately redescribe tha...