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The Processing and Acquisition of Reference.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (452 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Processing and Acquisition of ReferenceDDC classification:
  • 401.456
LOC classification:
  • P325.5.R44 -- P76 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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