The processing and acquisition of reference [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Edward A. Gibson and Neal J. Pearlmutter

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (452 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.456
• Soggetto topico: Reference (Linguistics); Language acquisition
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GibsonEdward <1962-> PearlmutterNeal J. <1967->
• Note generali: This volume presents papers from the special session at the CUNY Sentence Processing conference that was hosted by MIT and Northeastern University in 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The processing and acquisition of reference
• ISBN: 1-283-11924-2; 9786613119247; 0-262-29588-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461602703321
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