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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sentence interpretation"”.
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The time course of sentence interpretation
… representations may lead to erroneous interpretations, and the phenomenon of Pragmatic Normalisation is a central instance of this: comprehenders sometimes construct interpretations that reflect pragmatic knowledge rather than the grammatically licensed meaning of the input. Some …
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Situation Type, Context Coercion and the Meanings of the Chinese Aspect Marker Le
… evidence for the situation approach: an off-line sentence interpretation test, an off-line sentence naturalness judgment test, and an on-line experiment which used the moving window paradigm to investigate the processing of le in situation-concordant sentences (aspectually transparent, with no …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
… Judgment Task coupled with Preferential Sentence Interpretation, which tests exempt binding properties such as logophoricity conditions (Sells 1987) and strict vs. sloppy reading in VP ellipsis (Huang and Liu 2001). Overall results show that the subjects performed better with UG-based …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… focus (in the form of pitch accents) in online sentence interpretation. Experiment 1a revealed that native speakers’ interpretation of sentences in French was constrained by whether or not the referent in the sentence was prosodically focused. Experiment 1b showed that L2 learners were sensitive …
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Semantic Decomposition By Covering
… covering algorithm for semantic decomposition of sentences of technical patents. This research complements the ASPIN project that has a long term goal of providing an automated system for digital system synthesis from patents. In order to develop a prototype of the system explained in a patent, a …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… biases for the two phenomena, we carried out a sentence interpretation task with globally ambiguous items of both types in which we manipulated the pronominal forms and pseudorelative availability. To compare online processing biases, we conducted a self-paced reading task in which we …
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The neurofunctional correlates of sentence processing: focus on difficulties of morphosyntactic processing and thematic role assignment in aphasia
… to the understanding of the neural correlates of sentence comprehension, based on behavioral and neuroimaging evidence from aphasia. A substantial amount of research based on lesion-symptom mapping has been devoted to this issue, but several issues remain to be clarified. To consider just an …