Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
During the past decade I have been developing a very simple framework for describing the cognitive processes and mechanisms involved in discourse comprehension. I call this framework the Structure Building Framework, and it is based on evid...
Katy Carlson
Katy Carlson
Three self-paced reading experiments explored the processing of "only" and its interaction with context. In isolated sentences, the focus particle "only" predicts an upcoming contrast. Ambiguous replacive sentences (e.g., "The curator embar...
Charles Clifton Jr,Lyn Frazier
Charles Clifton Jr
Plural phrases are open to many interpretations in English, where cumulative interpretations of noun and verb phrases are possible without any disambiguating morphology. A sentence like Every week, the high school kids went to the movies or...
Modeling Reader- and Text- Interactions During Narrative Comprehension: A Test of the Lexical Quality Hypothesis [0.03%]
叙事理解中的读者和文本交互模拟：测试词汇质量假设的一种方法
Stephen T Hamilton,Erin M Freed,Debra L Long
Stephen T Hamilton
The goal of this study was to examine predictions derived from the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2002; Perfetti, 2007) regarding relations among word-decoding, working-memory capacity, and the ability to integrate new concept...
Cecilia E Ford,Sandra A Thompson,Veronika Drake
Cecilia E Ford
This paper considers points in turn construction where conversation researchers have shown that talk routinely continues beyond possible turn completion, but where we find bodily-visual behavior doing such turn extension work. The bodily-vi...
H Wind Cowles,Victor S Ferreira
H Wind Cowles
Four experiments investigate the influence of topic status and givenness on how speakers and writers structure sentences. The results of these experiments show that when a referent is previously given, it is more likely to be produced early...
Younger and Older Adults' "Good-Enough" Interpretations of Garden-Path Sentences [0.03%]
年轻和年长成人对语句理解的“足够好”解释：以花园路径句子为例
Kiel Christianson,Carrick C Williams,Rose T Zacks et al.
Kiel Christianson et al.
We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions...