Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hemforth, Barbara (Editor), Mertins, Barbara (Editor), Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 44
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Comparative linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Comparative Linguistics.

Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating theoretically well-founded con...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Meaning across Languages
• Chapter 2: Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Approach
• Chapter 3: Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses?
• Chapter 4: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect
• Chapter 5: Referring Expressions in Speech Reports
• Chapter 6: The Role of Grammaticality Judgments Within an Integral Approach to Brazilian Portuguese Bare Nominals.- Chapter 7: Information Structure and Pronoun Resolution in German and French: Evidence from the Visual-world Paradigm
• Chapter 8: Conversational Implicatures in Anaphora Resolution: Alternative Constructions and Referring Expressions
• Chapter 9: From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality.