Gibson, Edward A. <br/><br/>
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (452 pages) 
 - A Bradford Book Series .
 - A Bradford Book Series .
<br/><br/>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 Referents -- III 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. 
<br/><br/> How people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend reference, and how children acquire an understanding of and an ability to use reference. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262295888 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reference (Linguistics) -- Congresses.<br/>Language acquisition -- Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P325.5.R44 -- P76 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>401.456