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The Relation between Factual and Counterfactual Conditionals
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Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Rasga, Célia; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Cognitive Science, 2018
What is the relation between factual conditionals: "If A happened then B happened," and counterfactual conditionals: "If A had happened then B would have happened?" Some theorists propose quite different semantics for the two. In contrast, the theory of mental models and its computer implementation interrelates them. It…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Correlation
Producing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases: Do Speakers Use the Addressee's Discourse Model?
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Fukumura, Kumiko; van Gompel, Roger P. G. – Cognitive Science, 2012
We report two experiments that investigated the widely held assumption that speakers use the addressee's discourse model when choosing referring expressions (e.g., Ariel, 1990; Chafe, 1994; Givon, 1983; Prince, 1985), by manipulating whether the addressee could hear the immediately preceding linguistic context. Experiment 1 showed that speakers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)