Based on the author's doctoral dissertation. Experiments supported by a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health grant; paper preparation supported by the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, through the U.S. Office of Education. (VM)

This study demonstrates that a property of verbs, implicit causality, is important in determining coreference of potentially ambiguous anaphoric pronouns in a timed comprehension task. Verbs were classified according to bias toward a noun phrase; pairs of sentences were constructed for each. Response time was faster for congruent sentences. (CHK)

Research supported in part by a grant from the Public Health Research Center. (DS)

Research is reported in which subjects memorized sentences containing words from one of five deictic categories. When the sentences were presented in an experimental setting isolated from actual time, place, person, and discourse context, the deictic words were more difficult to remember than nondeictic words. (Author/RM)

Research is reported which explores the viability of theories of sentence memory in describing adjective memory. (Author/RM)

Research supported in part by a research grant from the United States Office of Education to Cornell University. (DS)

Three experiments were conducted to ascertain the effect of contextual restraints on pronoun assignment. Pronoun selection is based on integration of the context even where it is already syntactically constrained. Integration occurs during and not following the assignment of the pronoun. (PMJ)