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Direct linkHare, Mary; Jones, Michael; Thomson, Caroline; Kelly, Sarah; McRae, Ken – Cognition, 2009
An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that incoming words incrementally activate such knowledge. If so, then even outside of any larger context, nouns should activate knowledge of the generalized events that they denote or…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Nouns, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedMcRae, Ken; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Suggests that thematic roles might best be viewed as verb-specific concepts and that this conceptual/world knowledge is computed and used immediately in online language processing. Discusses results in relation to other recent treatments of thematic roles as well as constraint-based and garden path models. (68 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
