The Processing and Acquisition of Reference

Contents......Page 6
1 Introduction......Page 10
I Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Reference......Page 22
2 Cues Don’t Explain Learning......Page 24
3 Children’s Use of Context in Ambiguity Resolution......Page 52
4 Referential and Syntactic Processes......Page 74
5 Parsing, Grammar, and the Challenge of Raising Children at LF......Page 118
6 A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Interpretation of Pronouns by Children and Agrammatic Speakers......Page 142
7 Processing or Pragmatics?......Page 166
II Adults’ Processing of Reference......Page 204
8 Disfluency Effects in Comprehension......Page 206
9 It’s Not What You Said, It’s How You Said It......Page 228
10 The Effect of Speaker-Specific Information on Pragmatic Inferences......Page 248
11 Referential Processing in Monologue and Dialogue with and without Access to Real-World Referents......Page 282
III Adults’ Processing of Reference......Page 304
12 Noun-Phrase Anaphor Resolution......Page 306
13 Investigating the Interpretation of Pronouns and Demonstratives in Finnish......Page 332
14 Not All Subjects Are Born Equal......Page 364
15 Complement Focus and Reference Phenomena......Page 390
16 The Binding Problem for Language, and Its Consequences for the Neurocognition of Comprehension......Page 412
Index......Page 446