The processing and acquisition of reference / edited by Edward Gibson and Neal J. Pearlmutter.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Gibson, Edward, 1962-

Pearlmutter, Neal J., 1967-

Conference Name:

CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (16th : 2003 : Cambridge, Mass.)

CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Reference (Linguistics).

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; 1 Introduction; I Children's Acquisition and Processing of Reference; 2 Cues Don't Explain Learning; 3 Children's Use of Context in Ambiguity Resolution; 4 Referential and Syntactic Processes; 5 Parsing, Grammar, and the Challenge of Raising Children at LF; 6 A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Interpretation of Pronouns by Children and Agrammatic Speakers; 7 Processing or Pragmatics?; II Adults' Processing of Reference; 8 Disfluency Effects in Comprehension; 9 It's Not What You Said, It's How You Said It; 10 The Effect of Speaker-Specific Information on Pragmatic Inferences

11 Referential Processing in Monologue and Dialogue with and without Access to Real-World ReferentsIII Adults' Processing of Reference; 12 Noun-Phrase Anaphor Resolution; 13 Investigating the Interpretation of Pronouns and Demonstratives in Finnish; 14 Not All Subjects Are Born Equal; 15 Complement Focus and Reference Phenomena; 16 The Binding Problem for Language, and Its Consequences for the Neurocognition of Comprehension; Index

Notes:

"Bradford book."

This volume presents papers from the special session at the CUNY Sentence Processing conference that was hosted by MIT and Northeastern University in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613119247

9781283119245

1283119242

9780262295888

0262295881

OCLC:

727951755