M J Pickering

..Instead, they support an account in which both senses can be accessed immediately, perhaps through a single under-specified representation...

..We consider the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account...

..Instead, the comprehender appeared to take a complementary perspective to the speaker, perhaps to retain independence from the speaker...

..The authors close with theoretical and empirical recommendations for future investigations...

..This framework is in line with a general trend in cognitive science to incorporate action systems into perceptual systems and has broad implications for understanding the links between language production and comprehension...

..A new experiment demonstrates coercion costs using new items, and provides evidence of coercion cost with de Almeida's stimuli. We conclude that coercion does cause processing difficulty...

..For sense ambiguities, the authors argue that the processor does not access multiple senses but activates one underspecified meaning and uses context to home in on the appropriate sense...

..The results suggested that readers treated the filler as the verb's direct object and probably also considered the clausal analysis at the same time. The results are interpreted with respect to current accounts of parsing...

..The results suggest that priming effects in written production decay rapidly when other structures are subsequently produced. We discuss the implications for the application of syntactic information during production...

..We suggest that persistence may be related to the potential relevance of the information for subsequent syntactic processing. We show that current evidence is inconclusive about how long syntactic information remains activated...

..We conclude that humans are "designed" for dialogue rather than monologue...

..We then outline different strategies that the processor may use in reanalysis, and review the relevant evidence. We show that our experimental evidence is compatible with an encapsulated serial search strategy...

..In contrast, Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrated that alignment was unaffected by the prior participant role of the current addressee. We interpret these findings in terms of depth of processing during encoding...

..Finally, they were faster to adopt a high-attached interpretation after reading an expression containing the same verb that was disambiguated to the high-attached versus the low-attached interpretation (Experiment 4)...

..We conclude that speakers pay attention to their beliefs about their addressees' ease of comprehension, in addition to considering ease of production for themselves...

..We describe how these effects might be realized in a processing model of language production, and relate them to previous findings of linguistic co-ordination in dialogue...

..Our findings suggest that people construct logical-form representations, and they do so after constructing meaning-based representations involving quantifiers and thematic-role information...

..We further discuss our findings with respect to the mechanisms of phonetic encoding and provide evidence in support of a functional segregation of the posterior part of Broca's area, the pars opercularis...

..Hence, Mitchell's results did not depend on the use of an artificial method of presentation. The results cast further doubt on the adequacy of constraint-based accounts of parsing...

..The results suggest that word-order repetition is needed for the construction of integrated syntactic representations...

..The latter finding suggests that enriched composition requires the online deployment of complex compositional operations...

..These findings demonstrate that planning a new word can begin before the initial word is abandoned, so that both words can be processed concurrently...

..Thus, errors influence repair production. The authors explain the polarity of these effects in terms of the literature on context effects in word production...

..g. Semantics and Cognition, 1983), and argue for a theory of on-line sentence comprehension that exploits a rich inventory of semantic categories...

..We conclude that speakers can repair utterances by revising a speech plan...

..A review of the evidence from bilingual sentence production studies shows that Hartsuiker et al.'s predictions are supported, but argues against the other two models. We discuss some repercussions for bilingual language use...

..Attribution experiments using vignettes that present covariation information with natural language quantifiers may overestimate the impact of set size information, and ignore the impact of quantifier-induced focus...

..Their data also show that predictability effects are detectable very early in the eye-movement record and between contexts that are weakly constraining...

..In particular, English passives were considerably more common following a Spanish passive than otherwise. We use the results to extend current models of the representation of grammatical information to bilinguals...

..We argue that wh-words cause readers to lodge semantically vacuous thematic roles in their discourse representation that bias a reader's interpretation of subsequent thematically ambiguous adjuncts in their discourse representation...