Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding Across Languages

By Barbara Hemforth

Book Overview

Foreword by Bart Geurts.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Meaning across Languages By Barbara Hemforth, Barbara Mertins, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen.- Chapter 2: Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Approach By Bergljot Behrens, Barbara Mertins, Barbara Hemforth, and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen.- Chapter 3: Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses? By Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Lyn Frazier.- Chapter 4: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect By Oliver Bott, Fritz Hamm.- Chapter 5: Referring Expressions in Speech Reports By Kaja Borthen, Barbara Hemforth, Barbara Mertins, Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen.- Chapter 6: The Role of Grammaticality Judgments Within an Integral Approach to Brazilian Portuguese Bare Nominals By Albert Wall.- Chapter 7: Information Structure and Pronoun Resolution in German and French: Evidence from the Visual-world Paradigm By Saveria Colonna, Sarah Schimke, Barbara Hemforth.- Chapter 8: Conversational Implicatures in Anaphora Resolution: Alternative Constructions and Referring Expressions By Peter Baumann, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth.- Chapter 9: From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality By Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319379038
• ISBN13: 9783319379036
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"