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Ferguson, Heather J.; Scheepers, Christoph; Sanford, Anthony J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
During language comprehension, information about the world is exchanged and processed. Two essential ingredients of everyday cognition that are employed during language comprehension are the ability to reason counterfactually, and the ability to understand and predict other peoples' behaviour by attributing independent mental states to them…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Linguistic Input, Eye Movements, Beliefs
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Kaiser, Elsi; Trueswell, John C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two Finnish language comprehension experiments are presented which suggest that the referential properties of pronouns and demonstratives cannot be reduced straightforwardly to the salience level of the antecedent. The findings, from a sentence completion study and visual world eye-tracking study, reveal an asymmetry in which features of the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Word Order, Finno Ugric Languages