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Ingram, Joanne; Ferguson, Heather J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
An anaphoric reference to the complement-set is a reference to the set that does not fulfil the predicate of the preceding sentence. Preferred reference to the complement-set has been found in eye movements when a character's implicit desire for a high amount has been denied using a negative emotion. We recorded event-related potentials to examine…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Processing, Emotional Response
Bohan, Jason; Filik, Ruth – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
We report two text change-detection studies in which we investigate the influence of reading perspective on text memory. In Experiment 1 participants read from the perspective of one of two characters in a series of short stories, and word changes were either semantically close or distant. Participants correctly reported more changes to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Perspective Taking, Reading Comprehension, Association (Psychology)
Moxey, Linda M. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Statements containing quantity information are commonplace. Although there is literature explaining the way in which quantities themselves are conveyed in numbers or words (e.g., "many", "probably"), there is less on the effects of different types of quantity description on the processing of surrounding text. Given that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Comparative Analysis
Myachykov, Andriy; Garrod, Simon; Scheepers, Christoph – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers' attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also…
Descriptors: Attention, Memory, Role, Syntax
Çokal, Derya; Sturt, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernanda – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor "it" brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative "this" directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Processes
Price, Jessica M.; Sanford, Anthony J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Previous research has shown that information referring to a named character or to information in the main clause of a sentence is more accessible and facilitates the processing of anaphoric references. We investigated whether the use of such cues are maintained in healthy aging. We present two experiments investigating whether information…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure
Mayerhofer, Bastian; Maier, Katja; Schacht, Annekathrin – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
In garden path (GP) jokes, a first dominant interpretation is detected as incoherent and subsequently substituted by a hidden joke interpretation. Two important factors for the processing of GP jokes are salience of the initial interpretation and accessibility of the hidden interpretation. Both factors are assumed to be affected by contextual…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Cues, Humor, Linguistic Theory
Gotzner, Nicole; Spalek, Katharina – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
The present research examines the mechanisms underlying the comprehension of focus alternatives. In particular, we investigate whether listeners determine alternatives based on general semantic priming mechanisms or whether they only consider contrastive alternatives, elements that can replace the expression in focus. In a probe recognition…
Descriptors: Role, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Comparative Analysis
de Koning, Björn B.; Wassenburg, Stephanie I.; Bos, Lisanne T.; Van der Schoot, Menno – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Embodied theories of language comprehension propose that readers construct a mental simulation of described objects that contains perceptual characteristics of their real-world referents. The present study is the first to investigate directly whether implied object size is mentally simulated during sentence comprehension and to study the potential…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Simulation, Sentences, Cognitive Processes
Wannagat, Wienke; Waizenegger, Gesine; Hauf, Juliane; Nieding, Gerhild – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This study investigated the effects of auditory and audiovisual text presentation on the three levels of mental representations assumed in theories of discourse processing. A sample of 106 children aged 7, 9, and 11 years listened to 16 short narrative texts, 8 of which were accompanied by a series of pictures illustrating the content.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Memory, Models
Morita, Emi – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
This study investigates a particular behavior in talk-in-interaction that appears to be, at least in its most explicit form, relatively unique to children, that is, the behavior whereby one participant explicitly instructs another participant to say a specific phrase, after which the first participant then supplies a prefashioned response. Rather…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Toddlers, Young Children, Speech Communication
Giora, Rachel; Drucker, Ari; Fein, Ofer; Mendelson, Itamar – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Findings from five experiments support the view that negation generates sarcastic utterance-interpretations by default. When presented in isolation, novel negative constructions ("Punctuality is not his forte," "Thoroughness is not her most distinctive feature"), free of semantic anomaly or internal incongruity, were…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Usage, Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Zufferey, Sandrine; Gygax, Pascal M. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Previous research has suggested that some discourse relations are easier to convey implicitly than others due to cognitive biases in the interpretation of discourse. In this article we argue that relations involving a perspective shift, such as confirmation relations, are difficult to convey implicitly. We assess this claim with two empirical…
Descriptors: Role, Perspective Taking, Discourse Analysis, French